First published 1878

Anti Duhring

by Friedrich Engels

Anti-Dühring is Friedrich Engels's polemic against the philosopher Eugen Dühring, serialised in Vorwärts from January 1877 to July 1878 and published as a book in Leipzig in 1878. Part of it was reworked as the pamphlet Socialism: Utopian and Scientific in 1880.

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Genossenschafts-Buchdruckerei, Leipzig, 1878
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  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific adaptation, 1880

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11 on Open Library, 6 in English
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Anti Duhring by Friedrich Engels was first published in 1878.

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Gothic type title page of Engels's Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft, Leipzig 1878
Title page of the original 1878 edition of Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain