Intelligent Materialism

Evald Ilyenkov (1924–1979) was an important Soviet Marxist thinker who worked on a number of topics related to materialist dialectics and philosophy as a science of laws and categories of thinking. In 1953 Ilyenkov defended his dissertation on the issues of materialist dialectics in Marx’s Grundrisse where he investigated matters that gave rise to a new direction in Marxist philosophy – dialectical logic. In the 1960s Ilyenkov published several original studies dedicated to the categories of ‘the abstract and the concrete’ in Marx’s Capital as well as works related to dialectics, nature of thinking, art and communist ideal. Evgeni V. Pavlov, Ph.D. (2009), University of Denver, teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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 Evgeni V. Pavlov


1 Hegel Today


2 Hegel and the Problem of the Subject Matter of Logic


3 The Peak, the End and the New Life of Dialectics (Hegel and the End of Old Philosophy)


4 Hegel’s Science of Logic


5 Hegel and Hermeneutics: the Problem of the Relationship between Language and Thinking in Hegel


6 The Problem of the Ideal in Philosophy


7 Understanding of the Abstract and the Concrete in Dialectics and Formal Logic


8 The Logical and the Historical


9 Lenin’s Idea of the Coincidence of Logic, Theory of Cognition and Dialectics


10 Materialism Is Militant and Therefore Dialectical


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