An essential volume making available in English for the first time the key works of Polish Marxist Sociologist Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

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A Revised Introduction to the English Edition: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz’s Theory, Practice, and Purposeless Change.
by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

1 The Sociological Law of Retrospection: The Law of Revolutionary Retrospection as a Consequence of Economic Materialism

2 The Golden Age, State of Nature, and Development in Contradictions: From Studies into the Sources of Marxism

3 Comtism and Marxism: Positivism and the Monistic Comprehension of History

4 A Glance at the Development of Sociology in the 19th Century

5 The Crisis of Marxism: On the So-Called ‘Crisis of Marxism’

6 What is Economic Materialism?

7 A Few Main Principles in the Development of Art

8 Psychiatry and the Science of Ideas

9 The Social Dialectic in Vico’s Philosophy

Bibliography
Directory of Persons Referenced
Name Index
Subject Index