Prakritir Dwandikata

Book Details:

• Author: Friedrich Engels

• Publisher: National Book Agency Private Limited

• Language: Bengali

• First Publication Year: 2001

• Publication Year: 2023

• Edition: 3rd Edition

• Binding: Paperback

• Number of Pages: 269

• ISBN: 9789392593857

About The Book:

Prakritir Dwandikata (Dialectics of Nature) is a significant work by Friedrich Engels, focusing on the relationship between dialectical materialism and the natural sciences. Engels, alongside Marx, had a keen interest in mathematics and the natural sciences, with Marx focusing on applied sciences and Engels delving deeper into theoretical natural science. This book is the product of Engels' relentless research between 1873 and 1886.

The text comprises ten main essays and chapters, with 169 footnotes, sections, and two plans, totaling 181 parts. The manuscript was kept in the archives of the German Social Democratic Party for about thirty years after Engels' death. Only two essays, "The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man" and "The Science of the Specter," were published during his lifetime. The full manuscript of Dialectics of Nature was first published in 1925 in the Soviet Union.

This Bengali translation, undertaken by a group of distinguished professors from the University of Calcutta—Deb Kumar Bandopadhyay, Bimal Mukhopadhyay, Piyush Saha, and Nrisingha Bhattacharya—presents Engels' insights into the materialist approach to understanding nature and the universe. Edited by Professor Deb Kumar Bandopadhyay, the translation aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Engels' vision of the dialectical relationship between nature, society, and science