Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism (1958) surveys the history of dialectical materialism from its Hegelian beginnings to the death of Stalin, and its sequel in the celebrated XXth Party Congress of the C.P.S.U. It also presents a systematic account of the theory as it was formulated and discussed by the philosophers of the Soviet Union.

Auteur

Gustav A. Wetter was a Jesuit father and a professor at the Papal Oriental Institute in Rome. He enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a leading authority in his field, whose learning and impartiality met with reluctant commendation even from avowed political opponents.