Paradigm Lost

This sequel to "Man and the Biosphere" is an account of the origins and development of a cultural, social energetic and systems theoretical contribution to critical Marxism. It examines: the intellectual contributions of the Russian philosophers, A.A. Bogdanov and A.I. Bukharin; Bogdanov's and Bukharin's contributions as a search for a unity of scientific knowledge; and a paradigmatic change from a closed mechanical system to an open systems paradigm. Introduction; Chapter 1 Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Science and Economic Methodology; Chapter 2 Syntheses and Inversion in Political Economic Thought; Chapter 3 Philosophical Countercurrents; Chapter 4 Holism and the Natural Unity of Science; Chapter 5 The Philosophical Heritage of Critical Marxism; Chapter 6 Toward the Natural Unity of Scientific Knowledge; Chapter 7 Narodnik and Nihilist Dimensions: A Critical Kernel in Russian Marxism; Chapter 8 Social Energetics: A Marxian Variant; Chapter 9 The Phenomenological Marxism of Bogdanov; Chapter 10 From Phenomenology to Tektology; Chapter 11 Tektology: The Metascience of Praxis; Chapter 12 Tektology and Soviet Planning; Chapter 13 Techno-utopia: An Athens Without Slaves; Chapter 14 Dystopian Warnings; Chapter 15 Dystopia Realized; Chapter 16 Concluding Remarks;