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A. Aleksandr Bogdanov.- B. Toward a New Approach to Bogdanov and the Russian Machists.- C. Studying Bogdanov.- D. The Philosophy of Living Experience.- I. The Contemporary Problem of Philosophy and Philosophy’s Career.- A. Philosophy and Life.- B. The Rise and Development of Worldviews.- C. “What is Materialism?”.- D. Ancient and Modern Materialisms.- II. Empiriocriticism.- A. Empiriocriticism Depicted.- B. Empiriocriticism Criticized.- C. The Social Roots of Empiriocriticism.- III. Dialectical Materialism.- A. Bogdanov’s Dialectic.- B. Dialectics Prior to Marx and the Meaning of the Idealist Dialectic.- C. The Materialist Dialectic and Marx’s Truly Active Worldview.- D. Joseph Dietzgen and the Russian Dialectical Materialists.- E. The Real Dialectic and the Task of Philosophy.- IV. Empiriomonism.- A. “Labor Causality”.- B.The Elements of Experience.- C. Objectivity.- D. Sociomorphism.- E. Substitution.- F. The “Empiriomonistic” Worldpicture.- V. The Science of the Future.- Conclusion.- Notes.