Karl Kosík and the dialectics of the concrete /

Karl Kosík and the dialectics of the concrete / / edited by Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart.

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Karel Kosík (1926-2003) was one of the most remarkable Czech Marxist philosophers of the twentieth century. His reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical 'blockbuster' Dialectics of the Concrete , first published in Czechoslovakia in 1963. In reintroducing Kosík...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 243
TeilnehmendeR:
Feinberg, Joseph Grim,
Landa, Ivan (Philosopher),
Mervart, Jan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 243.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart
  • Part One
  • The Reform Years and the Origins of Dialectics of the Concrete
  • Karel Kosík as a Public Intellectual of the Reform Years
  • Jan Mervart
  • Karel Kosík and His 'Radical Democrats': The Janus Face of Dialectics of the Concrete. Moving from a Historical to a Systematic Approach to Philosophy
  • Tomáš Hermann
  • Part Two
  • Praxis and Labour
  • Praxis in Progress: On the Transformations of Kosík's Thought
  • Francesco Tava
  • Labour and Time. Karel Kosík's Temporal Materialism
  • Ivan Landa
  • Inception of Culture from the Ontology of Labour: The Original Contribution of Karel Kosík to a Marxian Theory of Culture
  • Ian Angus
  • 'The Philosophy of Labour' and Karel Kosík's Criticism of 'Care'
  • Siyaves Azeri
  • Kosík, Lukács and the Thing in Itself
  • Tom Rockmore
  • Part Three
  • Modernity, Nation, and Globalisation
  • The Ontological Dialectic and the Critique of Modernity: Based on the Interpretation of Kosík's Concrete Totality
  • Xinruo Zhang and Xiaohan Huang
  • And the 'Thing Itself' is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of Humanity
  • Joseph Grim Feinberg
  • The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalisation: Karel Kosík's Dialectics of the Concrete Fifty Years Later
  • Anselm K. Min
  • Part Four
  • Intellectual Encounters
  • Kosík's Notion of 'Positivism'
  • Tomáš Hříbek
  • Kosík's Concept of 'Concrete Totality': A Structuralist Critique
  • Vít Bartoš
  • The World of the Pseudoconcrete, Ideology and the Theory of the Subject (Kosík and Althusser)
  • Petr Kužel
  • Karel Kosík and Martin Heidegger: From Marxism to Traditionalism
  • Jan Černý
  • Part Five
  • Influence and Reception
  • A Route of Critical Thought: Between Italian and Czech Intellectuals
  • Gabriella Fusi
  • Karel Kosík in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the Dialectics of the Concrete
  • Diana Fuentes
  • Karel Kosík and US Marxist Humanism
  • Peter Hudis
  • Postscript: Looking Backwards
  • Spirit of Resistance: Note for an Intellectual Biography of Karel Kosík
  • Michael Löwy
  • References
  • Index  .

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