David G. Rowley, Ph.D (1982), University of Michigan, is Emeritus Professor , University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He has published research on Alexander Bogdanov and is the translator of Volume 8 of the Bogdanov Library, The Philosophy of Living Experience (Brill, 2016).

"As Bazarov mentions, one of the concepts with a great variety of applications in Tektology is the ‘law of the leasts’, the fact that people and things take the path of least resistance. This has certainly applied to the way Bogdanov’s ideas have been treated over the years. Instead of investigating what Bogdanov actually wrote, verdicts stemming from Lenin and Plekhanov have been repeated uncritically. This was understandable so long as Bogdanov’s works remained inaccessible. With this translation of Empiriomonism, this need no longer be the case." - James D. White, University of Glasgow, in: Europe-Asia Studies 72/10 (2020)"… Rowley’s excellent translation will not only permit a wide new audience to explore the grand systems and historical forays of Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism – it also illuminates a particular moment where various strains of Marxism debated the very relationship between understanding and changing the world: a generative conflict between Bogdanov and Lenin." - Nicholas Bujalski, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2021) [Full review]

• PrefaceThe Autobiography of Alexander BogdanovBogdanov as a ThinkerV.A. BazarovBook One1 The Ideal of Cognition (Empiriomonism of the Physical and the Psychical)2 Life and the Psyche1 The Realm of Experiences2 Psychoenergetics3 The Monist Conception of Life3 Universum (Empiriomonism of the Separate and the Continuous)Conclusion to Book OneBook Two4 The ‘Thing-in-Itself’ from the Perspective of Empiriomonism5 Psychical Selection (Empiriomonism in the Theory of the Psyche)1 Foundations of the Method2 Applications of the Method (Illustrations)6 Two Theories of the Vital-DifferentialBook Three7 Preface to Book Three1 Three Materialisms2 Energetics and Empiriocriticism3 The Path of Empiriomonism4 Regarding Eclecticism and Monism8 Social Selection (Foundations of the Method)9 Historical Monism1 Main Lines of Development2 Classes and Groups10 Self-Awareness of Philosophy (The Origin of Empiriomonism)BibliographyIndex