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This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective.

This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.

In this collection, distinguished philosophers examine what we still owe to it, how to expand it, as well as looking back on how it came about.

Providing a detailed discussion of the philosophical background to the Machist controversy which occasioned Lenin's Materialism and Empirio criticism, Pannekoek's study still stands as one of the most forceful and politically astute ...