FREDERICK ENGELS


ANTI-DÜHRING

(Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science)
-- Section 1 --
Prefaces, Introduction
and Part I: Philosophy
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1976

First Edition 1976



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (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

[Section 1]

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

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51
57
69
82
93
105
120
136
150
164
182

Notes



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)    
 
 
 



From Marx
to Mao

Marx and Engels
Collection

On to
Part I:
Philosophy

Notes on
the Text
Below




From Marx
to Mao

Marx and Engels
Collection

Reading
Guide

On to Part II:
Political Economy