Studies in Ancient Greek Society, Vol. II, The First Philosophers [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 10 (2):371-371 (1956)
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The Marxist theory of history and of the sources of cultural change is here applied to the Pre-Socratics. As a consequence, most of the book is devoted to pre-history and to the history of Greece from the Homeric Age on. The final portions discussing the Pre-Socratics show the economic sources of the different schools and the ways in which they anticipated confusedly the truths of Dialectical Materialism. The book contributes little either to Marxist theory or to philosophy, and is interesting only as an application of Marxist theory to the history of philosophy.--R. G. S.

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