‘Some of the philosophical essays on socialism and science, religion, ethics, critique-of-reason and the world-at-large. With a biographical sketch and some introductory remarks by Eugene Dietzgen; translated by Ernest Untermann; edited by Eugene Dietzgen and Joseph Dietzgen, Jr.’

Philosophical Essays by Joseph Dietzgen. Translated by Max Beer and Theodore Rothstein. Charles H Kerr Publishers, Chicago. 1906.

Contents: Joseph Dietzgen: A Sketch of His Life by Eugene Dietzgen, An Illustration of the Proletarian Method of Research and Conception of the World Max Stirner and Joseph Dietzgen by Eugene Dietzgen, Essays by Joseph Dietzgen: Scientific Socialism, The Religion of Social-Democracy, Ethics of Social-Democracy, Social-Democratic Philosophy, The Limits of Cognition, Our Professors on the Limits of Cognition, The Inconceivable: A Special Chapter in Social-Democratic Philosophy, and Excursions of a Socialist into the Domain of Epistemology, Preface, The Innermost of Nature No Created Mind Can Enter, The Absolute Truth and Its Natural Manifestations, Materialism versus Materialism, Darwin and Hegel, The Light of Cognition. 362 pages.

The Charles H Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement. It remains a left wing publisher today.

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