The Crisis of Bourgeois Social Sciences, Religion and Culture

Stefan Engel, Monika Gärtner-Engel

• Publisher: Verlag Neuer Weg
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9783880217256
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Imperialismo

Crises, in ever quicker succession, are shaking capitalist society: Corona pandemic, deep setbacks for the world economy, social emergency, the initiated global environmental catastrophe, the growing threat of world war, or the increasing danger of fascism. The bourgeois social sciences, religion and culture try to give answers, but are themselves affected by the state of crisis. They are far from "ideology-free" but instead spread the bourgeois worldview! This book espouses the ideology of the exploited and oppressed of this world and their justified cultural, ecological and social needs. It develops an unsparing critique of bourgeois-decadent culture while at the same time defending all valuable and progressive products of human culture. The book develops liberating visions of how a socialist society will solve the issues raised in a forward-looking way. This is the fourth volume of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking.

Table of contents

• IV. The Crisis of the Bourgeois Social Sciences, Religion and Culture
• Introduction
• 1. The Crisis of Religion
• 1.1. Religion as Historically First Ideological Foundation of Class Societies
• 1.2. The Crisis of Religion, and the Dialectical-Materialist Criticism of Religion
• 1.3. Anthroposophy – a Semi-Religious and Elitist Philosophy of Life
• 2. The Unscientific Nature of the Bourgeois Social Sciences
• 2.1. The Fantasies of Bourgeois Economics
• 2.2. The Dilemma of the Bourgeois Agricultural Sciences
• 2.3. Bourgeois Historiography Degenerates into Revision of Historical Facts
• 2.4. The Tightrope Act of Bourgeois Pedagogy
• 2.5. Manipulation of Public Opinion by Bourgeois Sociology
• 2.6. Questionable Theory and Practice of Bourgeois Jurisprudence
• 3. The Crisis of Bourgeois Culture
• 3.1. The Ambivalent Role of Culture in Bourgeois Society
• 3.2. The Part Played by Language in the Struggle of World Outlooks
• 3.3. Beethoven’s Music as a Product of the Enlightenment
• 3.4. Creative Potential and Crisis of the Visual and Performing Arts
• 3.5. Imperialist Sports Culture as Vehicle of Bourgeois Ideology
• 3.6. The Fundamental Fiction of the “Free Media”
• 3.7. Increasing Decadence in Bourgeois Mass Culture
• 4. The Necessity of Further Developing the Proletarian World Outlook and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking