Research Catalog

Title

Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the concrete / editedby Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Feinberg, Joseph Grim
• Landa, Ivan (Philosopher)
• Mervart, Jan

Description

xvi, 379 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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's philosophy to English-speaking readers, we show that Kosík's work is important not only as a leading intellectual document of the Prague Spring, but also as an original theoretical contribution with international impact that sheds light on the meaning of labour and praxis, democracy and economic structure, dialectics and the crises of modernity"--

Series Statement

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 243

Uniform Title

Historical materialism book series ; 243.

Subject

• Kosík, Karel, 1926-2003
• 1900-1999
• Philosophy, Czech > 20th century
• Dialectical materialism
• Economics
• Intellectual life
• Philosophy, Czech
• Czechoslovakia > Intellectual life > 1945-1992
• Czechoslovakia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 22-5074

ISBN

• 9789004325364
• 9004325360

LCCN

• 2021048693
• 40030923591

OCLC

1263743531

Title

Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the concrete / editedby Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 243

Historical materialism book series ; 243.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Feinberg, Joseph Grim, editor.

Landa, Ivan (Philosopher), editor.

Mervart, Jan, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the concrete Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004503243 (DLC) 2021048694

Other Standard Identifier

40030923591

Research Call Number

JFE 22-5074