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<p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">David G. Rowley. Review of Biggart, John; Dudley, Peter; King, Francis, eds., </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOI-Identity-H'">Alexander Bogdanov and the
Origins of Systems inking in Russia </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">and Biggart, John; Glovelli, Georgii; Yassour, Avraham, </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOI-Identity-H'">Bogdanov and His Work:
A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky) 1873-1928</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">. H-Russia, H-Net
Reviews. May, 2000.
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<p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOZ-Identity-H'">URL: </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">hp://<a href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=4154" target="_blank">www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=4154</a> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) – scientist, philoso-
pher, economist, physician, novelist, poet, and Marxist
revolutionary – is mostly ignored by general histories of
Europe and Russia and generally appears only as a minor
character in the more specialized works of Russian phi-
losophy and the Russian Social-Democratic movement.
Yet it seems that no one who becomes familiar with his
work fails to be uerly impressed by it. Most Bogdanov
scholars believe him to be one of the most creative and
profound European thinkers of his age.
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<p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">Bogdanov was an original philosopher who at-
tempted to reconstruct Marxism upon a modern epis-
temological footing (replacing Plekhanov’s correspon-
dence theory of knowledge with a sophisticated rein-
terpretation of Ernst Mach’s Empiriocriticism).[1] His
conception of the role that culture would play in build-
ing Communism bears a striking resemblance to Anto-
nio Gramsci’s notion of cultural hegemony.[2] Most im-
portantly of all, in his </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOI-Identity-H'">Tektology: Universal Organization
Science</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">, Bogdanov ambitiously proposed that all physi-
cal, biological, and human sciences could be unified by
treating them as systems of relationships and by seeking
the organizational principles that underlie all systems.
His work anticipated in many important ways Norbert
Weiner’s </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOI-Identity-H'">Cybernetics </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">and Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineOI-Identity-H'">Gen-
eral Systems eory</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'LinLibertineO-Identity-H'">.[3] </span></p>
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