Lenin on Aristotle

Conspectus of Hegel’s Book Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume XIV. Volume II of The History of Philosophy (1915), in: Collected Works, vol. 38 (Philosophical Notebooks); 4th edition (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 269-300.

“On the Question of Dialectics” (1915), in: Collected Works, vol. 38 (Philosophical Notebooks) (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981), pp. 357-63.

Conspectus of Aristotle’s Book Metaphysics (1915), in: Collected Works, vol. 38 (Philosophical Notebooks); 4th edition (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 363-372.

Secondary literature

Michael-Matsas, Savas. “Lenin and the Path of Dialectics,” in Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, edited by Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Žižek (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 101-119.

Other literature of interest

Adorno, Theodor W. Metaphysics: Concept and Problems, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. (Lecture series, 1965)

Aristotle: a Graphic Biography by Tassos Apostolidis & Alecos Papadatos. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2024.

Aristotle in Japan: Reception, Interpretation and Application, edited By Tomohiko Kondo & Koji Tachibana. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2025. 

Berger, Susanna. “How to Reach Wisdom? Avoid Death by Rocky Cliffs & Master Aristotelian Logic!,” The Philosophers’ Magazine. [Excerpt adapted from author’s The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 2017).]

Conze, Edward. The Principle of Contradiction: On the Theory of Dialectical Materialism (1932), translated by Holger R. Heine, foreword by Graham Priest. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.

Elster, Jon. Logic and Society: Contradictions and Possible Worlds. Chichester; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.

Kolozova, Katerina; Cockshott, William Paul; Michaelson, Greg. Defending Materialism The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. See esp. chapters 4, 7-10.

Łukasiewicz, Jan. The Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle: A Critical Study (1910), translated by Holger R. Heine, foreword by Graham Priest. Honolulu: Topos Books, 2023.

Lenin on fantasy & cognition

V. I. Lenin: Collected Works, Volume 38: Philosophical Notebooks: selections from writings of 1914-1916

V.I. Lenin on Idealism & The Spiral of Knowledge

V.I. Lenin: Their Abstraction & Ours

“Aristotle: A Forefather of General Semantics?”
by Wayne N. Thompson

Martin Gardner vs General Semantics

Historical Origins of the Logic of Classification and the Logic of Genesis
by Harry K. Wells

Harry Wells on the History of Logic
by Ralph Dumain

Logicomix: Logic and Madness Reviewed
by Ralph Dumain

Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide)

Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers:
Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1):
History of Philosophy: Special Topics

Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)

Marx and Marxism Web Guide

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