Tektologia Aleksandra Bogdanowa – nauka przyszłości
Alexandr Bogdanov Tektology – the Science of the Future

Summary/Abstract: Aleksandr Bogdanov was one of the major representatives of neo-Marxism and positivism in Russian philosophy at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He left a diverse scientific output, which so far has not been subjected to detailed and systematic research. In consequence, on the one hand, there is a multiplication of rather inadequate interpretations of his scientific views, which should not be identified with God-Building, and on the other hand, a tendency to downplay his contribution both to the development of Russian thought and contemporary science. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct Bogdanov’s methodological concept - tektology, the universal science of organization, accounting for the philosophical sources of its particular theses. On this basis, I will try to show why the universal science of organization may be considered as an early form of Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s general theory of efficient activity.

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