A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science. Now with a new afterword.
Helena Sheehan is an academic philosopher, historian of science, and writer on communication studies, politics, and philosophical (particularly Marxist) subjects. Sheehan is a retired (Professor Emeritus) communications lecturer at Dublin City University and has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of five books.
A singular achievement. Sheehan is masterful in her presentation of
the dialectics of nature debates, which begin with Engels and recur
throughout the periods covered by this book.
*Science and Society*
Sheehan’s history is a remarkably effective combination of solid
scholarship and engaging writing. Any reader who is led by the
title of this book to expect a ponderous study of a technical
branch of Marxist philosophy is in for a pleasant surprise. For
Sheehan’s prose is lively and full of feeling, and she approaches
the philosophy of science not as a narrow specialty but as the key
to understanding and appraising the many different turns taken by
Marxist thinkers in the doctrine’s first hundred years.
*Slavic Review*
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