The author of this book, Walter Hollicher - an Austrian communist scientist - is well known to the Soviet reader. In 1966, 'second; the publication in Russian published his book "Nature in the scientific picture of the world," which met a positive response from our scientific community. "Man in the scientific picture of the world" is the completion of the author's grandiose plan - to give a panoramic image of the scientific picture of the modern world and man's place in it. As the author himself admits, "this book about man, like the previous book on nature, was written in the order of philosophical review, in the form of analysis with philosophical conclusions, constant comparison of Marxist views with the ideas of philosophers of the opposite direction" (p. 423). Among the undoubted advantages of the book is the popularity of presenting the most complex scientific and socio-political problems and a clearly expressed Marxist methodology for solving them. Guided by the principle of historicism, the author considers the physical, mental and social features of modern man. The complex fusion of natural, individual and social, the key position of Marxism on the essence of man as a set of social relations is revealed in the book on rich factual and scientific material. In a sharp fundamental polemic with modern idealistic theories, the author gives a scientific criticism of the bourgeois concepts of global anthropological alienation (Sartre, Fromm, etc.), shows the failure of modern psychoanalysis attempts to hybridize Freudianism and historical materialism. The study of a person is formulated by him as a complex task that requires a synthetic approach. Summarizing the latest data of modern world development, experience and theory of socialism, the author helps the reader to understand the vast and complex problems of modern human sciences.