Vitalism, mechanistic materialism and Marxism. Agol I.I.

The reader’s attention is proposed to the book of the famous Soviet biologist and philosopher I. I. Agola, dedicated to the development from the point of view of the dialectical materialism of some issues of biology. The author analyzes in detail, evaluates and criticizes both the main problems of the modern vitalist theory, and the attempts of mechanists (philosophers who stood in the positions of identifying dialectics with mechanics) to revise dialectical materialism.

The book is recommended for philosophers and methodologists of science, biologists and biology historians, as well as all interested readers.