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mods: Dialectical materialism and quantum physics the unpublished 1957 lectures of David Bohm in Israel Gutfreund, Hanoch 1935- creator author. Renn, J?urgen 1956- author. text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2025 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations. This is the story of David Bohm's hitherto unpublished notes, uncovered from a series of lectures on quantum theory and dialectical materialism, given in Israel in 1957, to a group of Marxist physicists from the Hashomer Hatsair (young guard) movement. Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the stage -- 1. The road to rebellion against the quantum orthodoxy -- 2. Correspondence with Albert Einstein -- 3. From Hegel to Marxist literature and dialectical materialism -- 4. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics -- 5. The Colston Symposium -- 6. Quantum theory in light of dialectical materialism -- 7. The new perspective opened up by Bohm -- 8. Bohm in Israel -- 2 Commentaries on Bohm's lectures: A framework of dialectical thinking Part I Philosophical questions raised in a new approach to the quantum theory -- 1. Opposites in classical physics (chapters 3.1-3.2) -- a. Continuous vs. discrete -- b. Causality vs. chance -- 2. First discussion of the notion of the infinity of nature (chapter 3.3) -- a. Criticism of the metaphysical position -- b. The meaning of the infinity of nature -- c. Back to causality and chance -- d. The relation between levels -- 3. Quantum theory-the notion of a subquantum level (chapters 3.4-3.8) -- 4. Criticism of the Copenhagen point of view (chapters 3.9-3.11) 5. Subject and object (chapter 3.12) -- 6. Identity and difference (chapter 3.13) -- 7. Dialectical logic in quantum mechanics (chapter 3.14) -- Part II General philosophical problems in light of the infinity of nature and the unity of opposites -- 8. The grand picture: Introduction to the lectures of Part II (chapter 3.15) -- 9. Dialectical…