Science, Marxism and the Big Bang: a Critical Review of Reason in Revolt

A contribution to a debate on Marxism and science

By Peter Mason

Science Marxism and the Big Bang
Science, Marxism and the Big Bang

Contents:

  1. Contents and Preface to the 3rd Edition
  2. Preface to the 4th edition
  3. Introduction
  4. Science and dialectics in Reason in Revolt
  5. Concepts of the universe – an historical survey
  6. What is infinity?
  7. The dialectic of ‘becoming’ in ancient Greece
  8. Aristotle on the ‘heavens’
  9. Galileo and the relativity of space
  10. Newton: belief and contradiction
  11. Kant’s cosmology and Engels’ commentary
  12. Hegel on the dialectics of infinity
  13. Engels on materialism, the infinite and cosmology
  14. The infinite in mathematics
  15. Einstein and the end of Newtonian absolute space and time
  16. The Big Bang and mysticism in science
  17. The dialectic of the unity and interpenetration of opposites in science
  18. Appendix: Quantum mechanics and dialectical materialism
  19. End note and Bibliography