Jakov Alexandrovich Berman (Russian: Я́ков Алекса́ндрович Берма́н; 15 January 1868 – 1933) was a

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philosopher and political theorist linked to

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and

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. In 1908 he published ''Dialectics in the Light of the Modern Theory of Knowledge'' and also contributed to ''

Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism ''Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism'' (russian: Очерки по философии марксизма) was an account of a seminar held by Vladimir Bazarov, Alexander Bogdanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Jakov Berman, Osip Gelfond, Pavel Yushkevich ...

'', an anthology of works by Russian Marxist Machists, which

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criticised in ''Materialism and Empirio-Criticism''. Lenin also criticised his ''Dialectics in the Light of the Modern Theory of Knowledge''. In 1911 Berman published ''The Essence of Pragmatism''. After the Bolshevik seizure of power, he joined the

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and continued his academic career.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berman, Jakov 1868 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Russian philosophers Marxist theorists Pragmatists