Return to Lenin‑‑A Post‑textological Reading on Philosophical Notes
Bief Introduction
This book is another important monograph on classical texts of Marxist philosophy by the writer after he has finished Return to Marx and is also the first work, after the second edition of Complete Works of Lenin came out domestically, specializing on Lenin’s philosophical thoughts, esp. on his important turning of thoughts in his studies of Hegel’s philosophy. In this book the author puts forward a new type of reading method on how to read such quasi‑texts as annotations and notes, that is, the theory of the constitution of the horizontal thought. Facing with the kernel reading text, i.e., the most important Bern Notes in Lenin’s Philosophical Notes, the author radically gets rid of the method, which has been employed by the traditional study of the original works and retrospectively and fragmentarily explains the classical texts according to the system of schoolbooks, especially makes an immediate transformation from the mode, which starts from transcendental “theory of conception” in the study on Lenin’s Philosophical Notes about Hegel’s philosophy, and tries its best to reconstruct Lenin’s changing process of logical contexts in his own “lab for thoughts”, esp. his momentous transformations during his reading on Hegel’s philosophy, according to the texts and from his authentic thinking itinerary learning and studying Hegel’s philosophy. This book is full of and accurate in materials and the language in it is vivid and it employs a characteristic method and has a deep implication. All those qualify this book as a new, initiative and explorative book among domestic studies on Marxist classical texts.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1.The Un‑homogeneity of Lenin’s Philosophical Thoughts
2. What Kind of Book is Lenin’s Philosophical Notes?
3. A General Survey of Philosophical Notes
4. The Textual Structure of Bern Notes
5. A Variety of Traditional Study on Lenin’s Philosophical Notes
6. Consider the Question in Another Way
7. The Historical Original Image of the Development of Lenin’s Philosophical Thoughts
Part One Lenin Going towards Philosophical Altar
Chapter One Youth Lenin in the Practice of Revolution and the Subjective and Objective Dimension of History
1. Youth Lenin and the Objective Dimension of Historical Dialectics
2. Youth Lenin and His Philosophy Teacher G.V.Plekhanov
3. Youth Lenin Reading Holy Family
4. Subjective Dimension: The Primary Change of Youth Lenin’s Thoughts
5. Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Activity
Chapter 2 Lenin and Dietzgen’s Philosophical Materialism
1. Lnin’s Background of Systematically Learning Philosophical Theory for the First Time
2. Reading on Dietzgen’s Philosophical Materialism
3. Dietzgen and Comrades Marx and Engels
4. “Dialectical Materialism” and Epistemology
Addendum: Object/Relationship/Fetishism: A Forgotten Combat between Thoughts‑‑Remarks on Philosophical Controversy between Plekhanov and Bogdanov
Chapter Three Lenin’s Primary Understanding of Modern Western Philosophy
1. Lenin’s Strange Abnormality in His Reading
2. On Annotation of Ley’s Modern Philosophy
3. Broad Horizon for Philosophical Research: Notes for Western Philosophy and Scientific Investigation
Chapter Four Russian Thinker: Still Materialism
1. Ontology of Material Substance: Annotation of Deborin’s Article “Dialectical Materialism”
2. Getting to Understand Chernifsky
Chapter Five Abstract Notes of Feuerbach’s Philosophy
1. Nature and Religion
2. Materialism, Still Materialism
3. “Bud of Historical Materialism”
Chapter Six Comprehensively Understanding and Propagandizing Marxism
1. Marxism is a Guide for Action
2. The Philosophical Ideas in Karl Marx
3. The Clew of The History of Marxist Thoughts
Chapter Seven Lenin Reading the Abstract of Collected Letters between Marx and Engels
1. Dialectics: Why Hegel?
2. It Is a Fault Not to Understand Hegel’s Dialectics
3. Dialectics is the Soul of Marxist Philosophy
Part Two Lenin Standing on the Shoulders of Titans of Philosophy
Chapter Eight Lenin’s Primal Horizon of Reading Hegel’s Philosophy
1. Lenin’s Three Points d’Appui for His Primal Reading Gestalt
2. Can Lenin Really Take it Easy to Read and Understand Hegel?
3. From “Incomprehensibility” to Flash of Thinking Sparkles
4. The Internal Logical Conflict of Lenin’s Reading Itinerary
Chapter Nine Appearance and Transformation of New Reading Gestalt
1. Critique and Affirmation in Incomprehensibility: Logical Contradiction in the Process of Reading
2. The Revolutionary Leap of Lenin’s Reading Itinerary
3. Three “Significances” in Breakthrough Recognition
Chapter Ten Materialistic Dialectics Regarding Praxis as Essence
1. The Early Clew of Lenin’s Understanding of Dialectical Thoughts in Reading
2. Practical Dialectics: Lenin’s New Knowledge of Materialistic Dialectics
3. Praxis: Mapping the Prospect of the Objective World
Addendum: A Textual Being Deleted: The Concept of History in the Context of Marxian Philosophy‑‑Reading Deborin’s Article “Marxism and History”
Chapter Eleven Unity between Identical Logic, Epistemology and Dialectics in Practical Dialectics
1. “Three in One” and Hegel’s Philosophical Itinerary
2. The Discovery of “Two in One” for Epistemology and Logic
3. Practical Dialectics: The Sole Base Point for “Three in One”
Chapter Twelve De‑sanctification: The “Sixteen Elements” of Lenin’s Dialectics
1. Logical Analysis of Textual Structure
2. Dialectical and Epistemological Thoughts in the “Sixteen Elements”
3. One Remark
Chapter Thirteen Lenin’s Summary of His Study on Hegel’s Philosophy
1. Confirming Practical Dialectics in History of Philosophy
2. Important Reading Summaries and Personal Harvest 3. “A Discourse on Dialectics”: Lenin’s Main Gain in Learning Dialectics
Addendum: The Internal Logical Structure of the Theory of Negation of Negation
Bibliography
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