Contents

Author's Introduction to eBook Edition

Author's Preface to the Second English Edition

Authors’ Foreword

Part One: Reason and Unreason

1. Introduction

2. Philosophy and Religion

3. Dialectical Materialism

4.Formal Logic and Dialectics

Notes for Part One

Part Two: Time, Space and Motion

5. Revolution in Physics

6. Uncertainty and Idealism

7. Relativity Theory

8. The Arrow of Time

9. The Big Bang

Notes for Part Two

Part Three: Life, Mind and Matter

10. The Dialectics of Geology

11. How Life Arose

12. The Revolutionary Birth of Humankind

13. The Genesis of Mind

14. Marxism and Darwinism

15. The Selfish Gene?

Notes for Part 3

Part Four: Order Out of Chaos

16. Does Mathematics Reflect Reality?

17. Chaos Theory

18. The Theory of Knowledge

19. Alienation and the Future of Humanity

Notes for Part 4

Bibliography

Glossary of Terms