The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science

What is the nature of the ’laws’ that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels’s attempt to formulate a general philosophy and worldview? These are the questions highlighted in this magnificent work that situates Marx and Engels’s writing against the background of the entire nineteenth-century world of scientific problems, from physics to historiography.

One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman’s work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author.