Reason in Revolt, Vol. I

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Many people are discontented with their lives, which seem empty and unfulfilling, and they don't understand why. This work looks at the theory of Dialectical Materialism, first expounded by Marx and Engels, that offers useful insights into the problem. Dialectical Materialism is a comprehensive methodology explaining the unity of the laws that govern nature, science and society, from evolution to chaos theory, nuclear physics to childhood development.

About the Book

Many people are discontented with their lives, and not just because of material poverty. It is also a question of spiritual poverty: the emptiness of people's lives, the mind-deadening routine of work that is just so many hours out of one's life; the alienation that divides men and women from each other; the absence of human relations and solidarity that is deliberately fostered in a society that proudly proclaims the laws of the jungle and the so-called survival of the fittest (read: wealthiest); the mind-numbing banality of a commercialized 'culture.'

In this kind of world, the question we should be asking ourselves is not 'Is there a life after death,' but rather, 'Is there a life before death?

Although many people feel in their innermost being that something is going badly wrong, they find no logical explanation for it. That is not surprising. The entire way in which they have been taught to think from their earliest years conditions them to reject any suggestion that there is something fundamentally wrong with the society in which they live. They will close their eyes and try to avoid drawing uncomfortable conclusions for as long as they can.

Reason in Revolt further develops the theory of Dialectical Materialism, using the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century as a tool. First exposed by Marx and Engels, Dialectical Materialism is a comprehensive methodology explaining the unity of the laws that govern nature, science and society, from evolution to chaos theory, nuclear physics to childhood development.

First published in 1995 to coincide with Engel's centenary, Reason in Revolt has had a great success around the world. It has been published in Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Urdu, and is now being translated into German and Flemish. The Spanish edition recently went into its second edition.To date, no one has found serious fault with the science of the book. And every new discovery of science serves to confirm the statement of Engels, that 'in the last analysis, Nature works dialectically.'

Table content

Part One: Reason and Unreason Philosophy and Religion Dialectical Materialism Formal Logic and Dialectics Part Two: Time, Space and Motion Revolution in Physics Uncertainty and Idealism Relativity Theory The Arrow of Time The Big Bang Part Three: Life, Mind and Matter The Dialectics of Geology How Life Arose The Revolutionary Birth of Man The Genesis of Mind Marxism and Darwinism The Selfish Gene?