FREDERICK ENGELS


ANTI-DÜHRING

(Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science)


FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1976

First Edition 1976



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (July 1998)

The present English edition of Engels' Anti-Dühring [1] to a substantial extent follows previous English translations. In comparing these translations with the original text of the third German edition of Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft (1894) it was found necessary to make numerous and sometimes drastic corrections and revisions.
    The book includes the author's three Prefaces to the first three German editions.
    As he indicated in the Preface to the second German edition (p. 10 below) he revised the "Introduction", Chapter I and Part III, Chapters I and II more or less to conform with the changes he had made in them for his pamphlet Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Words and passages in the pamphlet not included in this revision are here given in square brackets. The most important formulations from Engels' rough draft of the "Introduction" and certain passages in the pamphlet which differ from the corresponding passages in the German edition of Anti-Dühring are given in footnotes.
    This edition includes the special introduction to the English edition of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific which Engels wrote in English himself in 1892.
    It is also supplied with notes and subject and name indexes.


 

C O N T E N T S

PREFACES TO THE THREE EDITIONS

I.
II.
III.


3
7
16


INTRODUCTION

I.
II.

General
What Herr Dühring Promises

18
35


PART I. PHILOSOPHY

III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.

Classification. Apriorism
World Schematism
Natural Philosophy. Time and Space
Natural Philosophy. Cosmogony, Physics, Chemistry
Natural Philosophy. The Organic World
Natural Philosophy. The Organic World (Concluded)
Morals and Law. Eternal Truths
Morals and Law. Equality
Morals and Law. Freedom and Necessity
Dialectics. Quantity and Quality
Dialectics. Negation of the Negation
Conclusion

42
51
57
69
82
93
105
120
136
150
164
182


PART II. POLITICAL ECONOMY

I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.

Subject Matter and Method
The Force Theory
The Force Theory (Continued)
The Force Theory (Concluded)
Theory of Value
Simple and Compound Labour
Capital and Surplus-Value
Capital and Surplus-Value (Concluded)
Natural Laws of Economics. Ground-Rent
From the Critical History

186
201
211
223
236
251
258
270
282
290


PART III. SOCIALISM

I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.

Historical
Theoretical
Production
Distribution
State, Family, Education

327
343
370
388
407


APPENDIX

Introduction to the English Edition of Socialism: Utopian
  and Scientific


423

[Transcriber's Note : Since the "Introduction" is included with the complete text of
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, it has been omitted here. -- DJR]


Notes

453

Subject Index  [not available -- DJR]

471

Name Index  [not available -- DJR]

492



ANTI-DÜHRING

(Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science )


 

Written between September 1876
and June 1878
 
Published in Vorwärts from Jan-
uary 3, 1877 to July 7, 1878
 
First appeared in book form in
1878 in Leipzig

Original in German              
 
 
English translation made from the
third German edition (1894)    
 
 
 



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