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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One: From Newton to Einstein
• 1. The New School in Physics
• 2. Newton’s Universe
• 3. The Wave Theory of Light
• 4. The Beginning of the Crisis
• 5. Relative and Absolute Motion
• 6. The Special Principle of Relativity
• 7. Unity and Atomicity
• 8. The General Principle of Relativity
• Chapter Two: The World as Machine
• 1. Revolution and Mysticism
• 2. The Metaphysics of Science
• 3. The Economic Crisis
• 4. Matter and Mechanism
• 5. The World of Bourgeois Society
• 6. The World as Machine
• 7. The Machine as Slave
• 8. The Bourgeois as Owner
• 9. Class and World-View
• 10. The Shattering of a World-View
• 11. The Sharing of Matter
• 12. The Wild World
• 13. World-View and Social Change
• Chapter Three: Man as Idea
• 1. The Generation of Idealism
• 2. The Advance to Dialectics
• 3. The Explosion of Theory
• 4. Reality as Appearance
• 5. The Screen of Phenomena
• 6. The Re-Discovery of the Object
• Chapter Four: The Distortion of Philosophy
• 1. The Monopoly of Consciousness
• 2. Primitive Materialism
• 3. The Cosmic Market
• 4. God-Making
• 5. Nature and the Slave-Owner
• Chapter Five: The Collapse of Determinism
• 1. The Problem of Freewill
• 2. The Principle of Indeterminism
• 3. The Sanction of Determinism
• 4. From God to Man
• 5. The Transition to Idealism
• Chapter Six: The Meaning of Causality
• 1. Causality not Determinism
• 2. The Meaning of Freedom
• 3. Spirit and Substance
• 4. The Flux of Phenomena
• 5. The Movement of Logic
• Chapter Seven: Bell and earth—Universal determinism … contradictory to causality?—Like and unlike—Time and Space—Mutually determining—Modern views: Probability (accident)—Determinism—Causality— Freedom—Iron bourgeois determinism—Freedom: ignorance of necessity
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Index