The Game of Contradictions

Preface to the English Translation
The Game of Contradictions

Foreword

Introduction

Part One
1 Back to Hegel

2 The Rational Method

3 Engels on Marx and Hegel

4 The Encounter with the Natural Sciences

Part Two
5 The Return of the Systems

6 Conservation of Energy, and Systems

7 Darwinism: Hypothesis or Worldview?

8 The Human Sciences

9 Facts and Laws about Humanity

10 Texts, Structures and Systems

Part Three
11 Engels’s Four Periods

12 The Literary Sources

13 The Direct Inspirations

14 Theory and Empiricism: The Three Tendencies

15 Inorganic Nature

16 Biology and Human Science

Part Four
17 Ideology and Science

18 The Debates on Darwinism and Socialism

19 Engels and Ideology

Sources and Literature
Index of Subjects