A Proletarian Science

Author : Dominique Lecourt
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732049
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proletarian Science? written by Dominique Lecourt and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who died in 1976, symbolizes one of the most notorious yet obscure episodes in the history of the Soviet Union. Emerging from provincial shadows in the Ukraine during the twenties, Lysenko achieved a meteoric career under Stalin's dictatorship, when ever greater claims were officially made for his 'environmentalism'. Overlord and autocrat of all Soviet biology after the Second World War, Lysenko's doctrines were promulgated throughout the international communist movement - from Britain to Japan - as a specifically 'proletarian' science, as opposed to mere bourgeois science. After Stalin's death, Lysenko soon plunged into discredit - although his agricultural recipes were to be approved again by Khruschev. Dominique Lecourt - author of the highly successful study Marxism and Epistemology - poses the question: what was the historical meaning of Lysenko? Was Lysenko no more than a brutal charlatan? Or did his ideas correspond - not to any canon of science - but to wider social forces at work in the USSR? Lecourt's sardonic and perceptive study provides a definitive critique of the follies of 'anti-Mendelian' biology, and a materialist account of the reasons for its triumph in Russia during the rule of Stalin. An important afterword traces the original idea of a proletarian science to its source in Bogdanov. In a major introductory essay, Louis Althusser poses the acute political problems which the history of Lysenko still represents for Communists everywhere, and for the first time directly indicts political repression in the USSR today.

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A proletarian science written by Stuart Macintyre and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : MacIntyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521226219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proletn Science:Marxm Br written by MacIntyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Lecourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko written by D. Lecourt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110550202
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proletarian Dream written by Sabine Hake and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspired the fantasies, desires, and attachments necessary for transforming the working class into a historical subject and an emotional community. This book reconstructs this complicated and contradictory process through the countless treatises, essays, memoirs, novels, poems, songs, plays, paintings, photographs, and films produced in the name of the proletariat. The Proletarian Dream reads these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant—and even more important, how it felt—to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction. By emphasizing the formative role of the aesthetic, the eighteen case studies offer a new perspective on working-class culture as a oppositional culture. Such a new perspective is bound to shed new light on the politics of emotion during the main years of working-class mobilizations and as part of more recent populist movements and cultures of resentment.

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Lawrence & Wishart Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780853156673
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Proletarian Science written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Lawrence & Wishart Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan R. Burger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789060321867
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marxism, Science, and the Movement of History written by Alan R. Burger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dominique Lecourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proletarian Science? written by Dominique Lecourt and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikolai Krementsov
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226454142
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Martian Stranded on Earth written by Nikolai Krementsov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the workers of the world, liberated from capitalist exploitation, create a “physiological collective” that rejuvenates and unites its members through regular blood exchanges. But Bogdanov was not merely a dreamer. He worked tirelessly to popularize and realize his vision, founding the first research institute devoted to the science of blood transfusion. In A Martian Stranded on Earth, the first broad-based book on Bogdanov in English, Nikolai Krementsov examines Bogdanov’s roles as revolutionary, novelist, and scientist, presenting his protagonist as a coherent thinker who pursued his ideas in a wide range of venues. Through the lens of Bogdanov’s involvement with blood studies on one hand, and of his fictional and philosophical writings on the other, Krementsov offers a nuanced analysis of the interactions between scientific ideas and societal values.

Author : Lenny Wolff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Revolution written by Lenny Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: