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1. Andrei Platonov: thinking nature in post-revolutionary Russia

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Woźniak, Monika
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Andrei Platonov, Soviet environmentalism, socialist development, and dialectics of nature
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Czech
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In the three presented newspaper articles from 1920s, Soviet writer Andrei Platonov criticizes the exploitation of the earth and human alienation from nature in the context of the Russian famine of 1921–1922, pointing to solar energy as the basis for socialist development. Introduced by Monika Woźniak and translated by Thomas H. Campbell.
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2. K problému dialektiky přírody

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Bartoš, Vít
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dialectics of nature, Friedrich Engels, biology, physics, adaptationism, and humanism
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Czech
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Th e aim of this article is to update some of Engels’s ideas on the topic of the dialectics of nature and to bring those ideas into the context of contemporary developments in the natural sciences (especially biology). Firstly, we examine the question of the very possibility of dialectics (dialectical processes) in nature because, at least since Lukács, there has been a signifi cant tradition denying the existence of dialectical processes in nature because nature has no acting, conscious subjects. We argue that dialectics is universally present not only in the actions of the subject, which is an old-fashioned relic of anthropomorphism, but in nature itself. Secondly, we identify some basic problems in Engels’s theory of nature as it is described in his Dialectics of Nature. We are especially interested in Engels’s employment of dialectics as a general method of investigating the nature of physical and biological reality. We fi nd that some principles of dialectics (as Engels understands them) are not consistent with the fundamental principles of physics, such as the second law of thermodynamics. In addition, in the domain of biology it would seem quite diffi cult to make Engels’s Lamarckian concept of evolution consistent with his own concept of dialectics, not to mention with the paradigmatic Darwinian approach. Finally, we point out that there is a renaissance of dialectical thinking in modern biology that can be understood as a partial confi rmation of Engels’s intuitions regarding dialectics. Especially in the works of Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, and Stephen J. Gould we can see how dialectics was applied in their disputes with genetic and environmental determinists and adaptationists.
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3. Marxian ecology, dialectics, and the hierarchy of needs: interview with John Bellamy Foster by Dan Swain and Monika Woźniak

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Bellamy Foster, John, Swain, Dan, and Woźniak, Monika
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ecology, Marx, Engels, dialectics of nature, needs, socialism, and science
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Czech
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John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea of production according to need.
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4. Marxova ekologie, dialektika a hierarchie potřeb: rozhovor Dana Swaina a Moniky Woźniak s Johnem Bellamy Fosterem

Creator:
Bellamy Foster, John, Swain, Dan, Woźniak, Monika, and Kostomitsopoulos, Denis
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bez média and svazek
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
ecology, Marx, Engels, dialectics of nature, needs, socialism, and science
Language:
Czech
Description:
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea of production according to need.
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5. Myslet přírodu v postrevolučním Rusku

Creator:
Platonov, Andrej and Woźniak, Monika
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Subject:
Andrei Platonov, Soviet environmentalism, socialist development, and dialectics of nature
Language:
Czech
Description:
In the presented three newspaper articles from 1920s, Soviet writer Andrei Platonov criticizes the exploitation of the earth and human alienation from nature in the context of the Russian famine of 1921–1922, pointing to solar energy as the basis for socialist development. Introduced by Monika Woźniak and translated by Alena Machoninová.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public