Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 25

Volume 25

Frederick Engels
Anti-Dühring & Dialectics of Nature


Anti-Dühring, Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science
Prefaces to the Three Editions5

I

5

II

8

III

15
Introduction16

I. General

16

II. What Herr Duhring Promises

28
Part I. Philosophy33

III. Classification. Apriorism

33

IV. World Schematism

39

V. Philosophy of Nature. Time and Space

44

VI. Philosophy of Nature. Cosmogony, Physics, Chemistry

53

VII. Philosophy of Nature. The Organic World

61

VIII. Philosophy of Nature. The Organic World (Conclusion)

71

IX. Morality and Law. Eternal Truths

78

X. Morality and Law. Equality

.88

XI. Morality and Law. Freedom and Necessity

99

XII. Dialectics. Quantity and Quality

110

XIII. Dialectics. Negation of the Negation

120

XIV. Conclusion

133
Part II. Political Economy135

I. Subject Matter and Method

135

II. Theory of Force

146

III. The Theory of Force (continuation)

153

IV. The Theory of Force (conclusion)

162

V. Theory of Value

171

VI. Simple and Compound Labour

182

VII. Capital and Surplus-Value

187

VIII. Capital and Surplus-Value (Conclusion)

196

IX. Natural Laws of the Economy. Rent of Land

205

X. From Kritische Geschichte

211
Part III. Socialism244

I. Historical

244

II. Theoretical

254

III. Production

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IV. Distribution

284

V. State, Family, Education

29S
Dialectics Of Nature
[Plan Outlines]313

[Outline of the General Plan]

316

[Outline for the Part Plan]

317
[Articles and Chapters]314

Introduction

Old Preface to [Anti-]Duhring. On Dialectics

336

Natural Science and the Spirit World

345

Dialectics

356

Basic Forms of Motion

362

The Measure of Motion.-Work

378

Tidal Friction. Kant and Thomson-Tait

392

Heat

397

Electricity

402
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man452
[Notes and Fragments]465

[From the History of Science]

465

[Natural Science and Philosophy]

482

[Dialectics]

492

[a) General Questions of Dialectics. The Fundamental Laws of Dialectics]

492

[b) Dialectical Logic and the Theory of Knowledge. On the "Limits of Knowledge"]

502

[Forms of Motion of Matter. Classification of the Sciences]

522

[Mathematics]

536

[Mechanics and Astronomy]

551

[Physics]

557

[Chemistry]

570

[Biology]

572

[Titles and Tables of Contents of the Folders]

588

 

From the Preparatory Materials

From Engels' Preparatory Writings for Anti-Duhring591

[Introduction. A Rough Outline]

591

Part One

596

Part Two

612

 

Appendices

Infantry Tactics, Derived from Material Causes. 1700 - 1870623
Additions to the Text of Anti-Duhring made by Engels in the Pamphlet Socialism Utopian and Scientific630

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes645
Index of Contents of the Folders in "Dialectics of Nature"689
Chronological List of Chapters and Fragments in "Dialectics of Nature"695
Name Index700
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature718
Index of Periodicals733
Subject Index734

 

Illustrations

F. Engels. Portrait. 18886-7
Title page of the third edition of Engels' Anti-Duhring3
First article of Anti-Duhring published in the newspaper Vorwarts on January 3 187717
First page of Marx's manuscript Randnoten zu Duhrings Kritische Geschichte der Nationalokonomie213
Diagram (formula) of Quesnay's Tableau economique239
Outline of the general plan of Dialectics of Nature315
First page of the first folder of Dialectics of Nature483