Europe’s lost centre. Karel Kosik’s conception of Central Europe
e-mail: dalberg.dirk@atlas.cz
The debate about what is Europe and Europeanism on the European continent takes already few centuries. Even in the Czech environment has been the subject of much debate, with longer pauses, since King George of Poděbrady from the mid-15th century on, about what is Europe and Europeanism. In the 19th and in the first half of the 20th [read more]
Dialectics of the Concrete and Historical-Critical Pedagogy in Brazil
e-mail: newton.duarte@uol.com.br
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Educational studies in Brazil have a strong tradition based on Marxist dialectical thinkers as Gramsci, Lukács and Kosik. One of the most significant Marxist approaches in the field of pedagogical theories in Brazil is called Historical-Critical Pedagogy. The non-critical educational approaches have been defending an almost
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Kosík´s Concept of Concreteness, the Everyday, and the Intercultural Dialogue
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Globalization is an omnipresent phenomenon today and establishes itself primarily as a process, which essence consists of preceding the economic interests above everything else, whereas the final aim is the maximum of utility. Only an elitist minority profits from globalization and it does not feel responsibility to the majority – other parts of society are left to ‘their fate’.
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Praxis and Labour in Kosík’s Dialectics of the Concrete and the constitutively needing nature of subject in The Functioning of the Sciences and the Meaning of Man by Enzo Paci
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This work analyses the role of praxis in the thought of Kosík and its relation with labour. The latter becomes – by the interpretation of praxis as an endless moment of openness to the being in its entirety – the project of a realization of human essence through the social constitution of our being situated in nature. Moreover, it examines the subjective
The Dialectics of the People
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In this paper I will follow the development of the concept of “the people” through various permutations in Karel Kosík’s work. I will begin with a discussion of Kosík’s early writings on democracy and “popularness” (lidovost), which culminated in Kosík’s works on Czech Radical Democrats and Czech Radical Democracy. I will trace ways that Kosík’s [read more]
Karel Kosik in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the Dialectics of the Concrete
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In 1963, Karel Kosik participated in the XIII International Congress of Philosophy in Mexico , where he presented ” Wer ist der Mensch ?”. Which is focuses on expose some fundamental ideas of his book Dialectics of the Concrete: “It was enough this informal knowledge of the substance of his book and the exchange of ideas that led between [read more]
A Route of the Critical Thought: Between Italian and Czech Intellectuals
e-mail: bruno.manelli@fastwebnet.it
It’s no accident that the first translation and edition of Kosík’s Dialektika konkrétního was published in Italy and in Milan nor was an accident that Kosík’s works made their appearance in Italian reviews as long ago as the early sixties following his attendance at conferences in Italy. The aim of my proposal is going over the course of Kosik’s relationships with [read more]