Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete

Joseph Grim Feinberg is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Czech Academy of Sciences. He is author of The Paradox of Authenticity and editor of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.Ivan Landa is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published articles and chapters on Hegel and the history of Marxism. He is a co-editor of the Collected Works of Karel Kosík planned for 7 volumes (in Czech).Jan Mervart is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published monographs and articles on the intellectual history of Czechoslovakia. He is the co-editor of Czechoslovakism.

• Table of ContentsIAcknowledgementsNotes on AuthorsIntroductionJoseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan MervartPart 1 The Reform Years and the Origins of Dialectics of the Concrete1 Karel Kosik as a Public Intellectual of the Reform YearsJan Mervart2 Karel Kosik and His 'Radical Democrats': The Janus Face of Dialectics of the ConcreteMoving from a Historical to a Systematic Approach to PhilosophyTomas HermannPart 2 Praxis and Labour3 Praxis in Progress: On the Transformations of Kosik's ThoughtFrancesco Tava4 Labour and Time: Karel Kosik's Temporal MaterialismIvan Landa5 Inception of Culture from the Ontology of Labour: The Original Contribution of Karel Kosik to a Marxian Theory of CultureIan Angus6 'The Philosophy of Labour' and Karel Kosik's Criticism of 'Care'Siyaves Azeri7 Kosik, Lukacs and the Thing in ItselfTom RockmorePart 3 Modernity, Nation, and Globalisation8 The Ontological Dialectic and the Critique of Modernity: Based on the Interpretation of Kosik's Concrete TotalityXinruo Zhang and Xiaohan Huang9 And the 'Thing Itself' Is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of HumanityJoseph Grim Feinberg10 The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalisation: Karel Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete Fifty Years LaterAnselm K. MinPart 4 Intellectual Encounters11 Kosik's Notion of 'Positivism'Tomas Hřibek12 Kosik's Concept of 'Concrete Totality': A Structuralist CritiqueVit Bartos13 The World of the Pseudoconcrete, Ideology and the Theory of the Subject (Kosik and Althusser)Petr Kužel14 Karel Kosik and Martin Heidegger: From Marxism to TraditionalismJan ČernyPart 5 Influence and Reception15 A Route of Critical Thought: Between Italian and Czech IntellectualsGabriella Fusi16 Karel Kosik in Mexico: Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez and the Dialectics of the ConcreteDiana Fuentes17 Karel Kosik and US Marxist HumanismPeter HudisPostscript: Looking Backwards18 Spirit of Resistance: Note for an Intellectual Biography of Karel KosikMichael LowyReferencesIndex

“This handbook is already a classic, as an excellent introduction to both Kosík and Czech Marxism in a global context.” —Isabel Jacobs, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books