The Crisis of Bourgeois Natural Science

The third volume of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking, deals with the crisis of bourgeois natural science. Natural scientists generally are held in high esteem in bourgeois society because they are seemingly apolitical, unimpeachable, and committed solely to social progress. With the advance of positivism and pragmatism, however, the natural sciences lost much of their scientificity and have gotten into a crisis. This polemic is intended to revive materialistically based free thinking in the working class. Unless it frees itself from the shackles of idealism and metaphysics, humanity will not be able to utilize the achievements of the modern natural sciences for social progress. Thus, this book is also a must for every scientist with a critical mind. It serves the purpose of helping scientific socialism and its dialectical-materialist method gain new esteem.

Auteur
Stefan Engel, born in 1954, is a trained mechanic and works today as a free publicist. Since 1968 he has been actively involved in the building of theMLPD, and since 1975 has been one of its leading representatives. From the late 1980s up until 2016 he held positions of responsibility in the international revolutionary working-class movement.

Contenu
Part III: The Crisis of Bourgeois Natural Science ................................................... 7 Introduction ............................................................................. 7 1. Rise and Decline of Bourgeois Natural Science .............................................................. 14 2. The Ideological Dead End of Modern Physics .............................................................. 23 3. Astrophysics between Science and Creation Myth ................................................................ 39 4. Biology as "Science of Life" in Crisis ............................. 53 5. Ideological Fallacies in Environmental Research .......................................................................... 69 6. The Crisis of Bourgeois Engineering ............................. 87 7. The Fundamental Dilemma of Bourgeois Medicine ...................................................... 103 8. The Myth of "Alternative Medicine" ............................ 117 9. Modern Psychology between Fiction and Truth ...................................................................... 128 10. The Prospects of Modern Natural Science .................. 145