Oittinen V. (ed.) Aleksandr Bogdanov Revisited

Aleksanteri Institute, 2009. — 329 p. — (Aleksanteri Series 1).The radical Russian philosopher, politician, Utopian novelist and social scientist Aleksandr Bogdanov is a controversial figure: for some, the "rival of Lenin" and founder of an alternative current in Bolshevism, which might have turned the course of history if he had succeeded; for others, an Utopist with "wild" ideas in social sciences, culture as well as medicine; some, finally, see in Bogdanov a precursor of cybernetics and scientific management of society. All these aspects of the many-faceted person of Bogdanov are discussed in this volume, which contains the materials of an international symposium held at the Aleksanteri Institute in 2006, with some later additions. The contributions of scholars from Russia, Germany, Italy, France and Finland give an overall picture and open some unexpected new views on the literary and scientific work of a Russian scholar, whose work was neglected for a long time in his native country.Preface (Vesa Oittinen)
Der «alternative Bolschewismus»: Die Schulen in Capri und Bologna- Bogdanov und Gor’kij (Jutta Scherrer)
The Sociology of Alexander Bogdanov and the Theories of Progress in the th and Early th Centuries (Georgi Gloveli)
The Unfulfilled Promise: Tectology and «Socialist Cybernetics» (Ilmari Susiluoto)
Tectology in the Context of Intellectual Thought in Russia (Simona Poustilnik)
Paradoxes of Mephistopheles or Paradoxes of the Communist Mind? (A.P. Ogurtsov)
From Experience to Organization: Bogdanov s Unpublished Letters to Bazarov (Daniela Steila)
Zu Bogdanows universalgeschichtlichem Ideologiekonzept (Hans-Christoph Rauh)
Reciprocal Influence of Social and Medical Ideas of A.A. Bogdanov (Galina Isakova)
Tracing Tectology in Sergei Eisensteins Holistic Thinking (Pia Tikka)
Die gesellschaftliche Utopie in den Romanen Aleksandr Bogdanovs (Wladislaw Hedeler)
Alternative Social Ideals in Russian Utopian Novels and Science Fiction at the Beginning of the th Century (A.N. Shuspanov)
From Bogdanovs «Proletkult» to Bukharins Socialist Humanism (Svetlana Neretina)
Das Ding an sich – Stein des Anstosses der Bolschewiki? Zur philosophischen Polemik von Lenin und Bogdanov (Vesa Oittinen)