Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism

Reflections on Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

This book by E V Ilyenkov, doctor of Philosophy and laureate of the Chernyshevsky Prize, is the result of years of the author's reflections on dialectics, dialectical logic and the theory of knowledge. This is a vivid account of the circumstances in which V I Lenin wrote Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, of the understanding of dialectics which Lenin defended in his book and developed further in his Philosophical Notebooks and his passionate struggle against Positivism and the positivist mode of thinking.