Pierre Raymond, Dialectical Materialism and Logic

Table of Contents

PREFACE I. INTRODUCTION A. Articulation B. Periodization of the new sequence C. Remarks on some features of this study 1. Regarding philosophy 2. Regarding logic II. LOGIC AND DIALECTICS 1: HEGEL AND MARX

A. Hegel and logic B. Logic, language, and dialectics C. The hold of modern logic over Hegel D. First remarks on Marx

III. LOGIC: BOLZANO

A. The nature of logic B. Propositions and concepts in themselves

IV. LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 1: BOOLE AND MATHEMATICIZED LOGIC V. LOGIC AND DIALECTICS 2: MARX AND ENGELS A. The appearance of history in the dialectical fiction B. The philosophy-sciences connection C. The dialectic VI. LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 2: FREGE AND RUSSELL AND LOGICIZED

MATHEMATICS A. Frege

1. The logical bases 2. Ideography 3. Deduction 4. Truth

B. Russell VII. THE PHILOSOPHIES OF RIGOR: HUSSERL, WITTGENSTEIN, CARNAP, AND POPPER

A. Wittgenstein 1. A weak philosophical breakthrough 2. A new conception of logic 3. Ideological exploitation

B. Carnap 1. Carnaps situation 2. The great themes 3. The ambiguity of neo-positivism

C. General conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Translated by Ted Stolze and excerpted from Pierre Raymond, Matrialisme dialectique et logique [Paris: Franois Maspero, 1977])