Table of Contents
Introduction v
Chapter I From Newton to Einstein 3
The New School in Physics
Newton's Universe
The Wave Theory of Light
The Beginning of the Crisis
Realtive and Absolute Motion
The Special Principle of Relativity
Unity and Atomicity
The General Principle of Relativity
Chapter II The World as Machine 22
Revolution and Mysticism
The Metaphysics of Science
The Economic Crisis
Matter and Mechanism
The World of Bourgeois Society
The World as Machine
The Machine as Slave
The Bourgeois as Owner
Class and World-View
The Matter
The Shattering of a World-View
The Sharing of Matter
The Wild World
World-View and Social Change
Chapter III Man As Idea 55
The Generation of Idealism
The Advance to Dialectics
The Explosion of Theory
Reality as Appearance
The Screen of Phenomena
The Re-Discovery of the Object 55
Chapter IV The Distortion of Philosophy 76
The Monopoly of Consiousness
Primitive Materialism
The Cosmic Market
God-making
Nature and the Slave-owner
Chapter V The Collapse of Determinism
The Problem of Freewill
The Principle of Indeterminism
The Sanction of Determinism
From God to Man
The Transition to Idealism
Chapter VI The Meaning of Causality 108
Causality not Determinism
The Meaning of Freedom
Spirit and Substance
The Flux of Phenomena
The Movement of Logic
Chapter VII 131
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 VIII 148
Chapter IX 155
Chapter X 169
Chapter XI 193
Chapter XII 211
Index 242