Notes on Books

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F. Raab, Die Philosophie von R. Avenarius. Systematische Darstellung und immanente Kritik, Leipzig, 1912 (164 p.). 5 Mk.

Perrin, Les atomes, Paris (Alcan).

Written not earlier than 1912 First Published in 1938 in Lenin Miscellany XXXI Published according to the manuscript

Gideon Spicker, Über das Verhältnis der Naturwissenschaft zur Philosophie (especially versus Kant and Lange’s His- tory of Materialism). Octavo. Berlin, 1874. IV. W. 57 K.

Hegel, Phänomenologie (hrs. Bolland, 1907). IV. W. 165 g.

Written in 1915 First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXII Published according to the manuscript

Flugschriften des deutschen Monistenbundes. Heft 3: Albrecht Rau. “Fr. Paulsen über E. Haeckel.” 2-te Aufl. Brackwede, 1907, (48 SS.)

Written in 1915 First published in 1933 In Lenin Miscellany XXII Published according to the manuscript

Theories of Origin... 1914. (Present-day Culture III, IV). F. Haeckel, Gott-Natur, Leipzig, 1914... Sch. 480 N 24.

Uhde, Feuerbach, Leipzig, 1914 ... XVI. 906.

A. Zart, Bausteine des Weltalls: Atome, Moleküle.. Stuttgart, 1913.

Written in 1916 First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXVII Published according to the manuscript

Ruttmann, Die Hauptergebnisse der modernen Psycholo- gie, Pe. VII. 3551.

Suter, Die Philosophie von Richard Avenarius, 1910 (Diss). St. Bro. 11.341

Written in 1916 First published in 1936 in Lenin Miscellany XXIX Published according to the manuscript

Joh. Plenge, Marx and Hegel, Tübingen, 1911. (184 SS.) (Mk. 4).

Written in 1913 First published in 1938 in Lenin Miscellany XXXI Published according to the manuscript

Mind. 1913. April. Review by F. C. S. Sculler of Ralph Barton Perry’s Present Philosophical Tendencies: a Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism and Realism, together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James, London and New York. (Longmans & Co.). 1912. 383 pages.

Schiller is against Perry’s “realism” and makes the charge that “his mind is so preoccupied with the metaphysical antithesis between realism and idealism that he is always trying to reduce all other issues to this.”

It is to be noted that Schiller quotes the following pas- sage from Perry: “The organism is correlated with an en- vironment, from which it evolved and on which it acts. Consciousness is a selective response to a pre-existing and independently existing environment. There must be some- thing to be responded to, if there is to be any response” (p. 323 in Perry’s book). And Schiller raises the objection:

“Unless the question is begged in the ‘independently exist- ing environment’” (Schiller’s italics), “nothing is here proved except the correlation of the mind and its ‘environ- ment’”... (p. 284).

Written later than April 1913 First published in 1938 in Lenin Miscellany XXXI Published according to the manuscript

Antonio Aliotta: La reazione idealistica contro la sciensa. 1 vol. 8°. XVI + 526 pages. Palerme. Casa editrice Optima, 1912.

Review in Revue Philosophique (Ribot). Paris, 1912, No. 12, pp. 644--646, by J. Segond, who states:

“He” (Aliotta) “shows us in agnosticism all the latest sources of contemporary reaction; he shows how it de- velops through German (Riehi) and French (Renouvier) neo-criticism, the empirio-criticism of Mach and Avenarius, and English neo-Hegelianism; he describes and exposes the intuitionism of Bergson and Schmitt, the Anglo-American pragmatism of W. James, Dewey and Schiller, the philos- ophy of values and the historicism of Rickert, Croce, Mün- sterberg and Royce,” etc. (645), and so on up to Schuppe, Cohen and others.

In the second part the author examines the energetics of Ostwald and “the new physics des qualités” of Duhem and the “theory of models” of Hertz, Maxwell and Pastore. The author particularly dislikes, he says, mysticism (includ- ing that of Bergson), etc.

The point of view of the author is stated to be “the spir- it of the happy mean of truly rational intellectualism, that of M. Aliotta and of M. Chiapelli.” (645)

Written in 1913 First published in 1938 in Lenin Miscellany XXXI Published according to the manuscript

Hilferding: Finance Capital. (“The Latest Phase in the Development of Capitalism”). Moscow, 1912

Written not later than June 1916 First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXVII Published according to the manuscript