The Categories of Dialectical Materialism: Contemporary Soviet Ontology: Sovietica, cartea 24

I. Combat on Two Fronts.- A. Significance of Two Condemnations.- B. Dialectical Materialism faces its Critics.- C. Stalin and De-Stalinisation.- II. Categories of Diamat and Categories of Science.- A. The Need for Cooperation.- B. The Nature of the Cooperation.- C. Critical Remarks.- III. Definition of the Notion of Category.- A. Precursors.- B. Abstraction of the Categories.- C. The ‘Theory of Reflection’ and Empiricism.- IV. The Dialectic of the Categories.- A. Dialectification of the Categories.- B. Refusal of a Dialectification of the Categories.- C. Identity of Logic, Dialectic and Epistemology?.- D. System and Method in Hegel.- E. Objective Truth: Absolute and Relative.- V. The Category of Matter: Basis of Ontology.- A. Vulgar Materialism and Dialectical Materialism.- B. The Attributes of Matter.- C. The Materialism of Practice and the Materialism of Matter.- VI. Dialectical Contradiction.- A. Matter and Movement: Evolution.- B. Dialectical Contradiction.- C. Transition from Quantity to Quality.- D. The Law of Negation of Negation.- VII. Causality-Finality.- A. The Category of Causality.- B. The Category of Finality.- Conclusion.- Index of Names.