The purpose of the paper is to discuss two chief arguments, raised by the authors of a recently published monograph “Австрийская инженерная философия для политехников” ( Austrian Engineering Philosophy for Polytechnicians ). Firstly, it is the idea of realistic loneliness, secondly, the idea of relations between epistemology and political theory, which the authors reveal from the writing of the Austrian positivist philosophers of the border of 20th-21st centuries. The Machists’ epistemological programme of “personal dissociation”, or abandonment of the founding “I” as a premise of any orientation in thinking and in the world, managed to establish a thorough base both for theoretical investigation and a certain world outlook. The scientific philosophers realise nature as a constant order of things, rules and laws that never collapse, and they see no other way to fulfill their zest for domination of the rational over not-rational, but to proclaim the utopian projects. However, they think o
