Kusý and Marxist Humanism in the 1960s
e-mail: gluchmv0@unipo.sk
Miroslav Kusý (1931) exemplifies the critical approach to Marxist philosophy in Slovakia in the 1960s. In his Philosophy of Politics (Filozofia politiky, 1966) and Marxist Philosophy (Marxistická filozofia, 1967), he tried to critically develop the approach. Based on contemporary critical discussions on Marxist philosophy in the countries of Central and [read more]
Kosík and Gramsci: An Assessment on Marxist Notions of Totality and Praxis
e-mail: atillagn@gmail.com
In this paper what is aimed is to make a comparative reading of Kosik’s ‘Dialectic of Concrete” and Gramsci’s ‘Prison Notebooks’ by focusing on deeply divisive topics of Marxist philosophy, namely the collective praxis and notion of totality. According to Kosik, philosophy is not merely a reflection or by-product of socio economic conditions but a
Karel Kosík and post-Marxism
e-mail: hauser@sok.bz
The principal question concerning Kosík´s Dialectics of the Concrete is the one of its contemporary relevance. Do the Kosík´s concepts have just historical meaning or can they be revived in the context of the today´s philosophical thought, especially the post-Marxism? I would like to argue that the crucial concepts of Dialectics of the Concrete like [read more]
“Kosík’s Conception of the 19th Century”
e-mail: milos.havelka@gmail.com
This paper is concerned with three aspects of Kosík’s conception of the 19th century. First with the post-Stalinist understanding of Marxist-Leninist philosophy and conception of history; second with Marxism and the “Czech question”; and third with Kosík’s conception of Central Europe.
Karel Kosík and His ‘Radical Democrats’ Moving From a Historical to a Systematic Approach to Philosophy
e-mail: hermannt@centrum.cz
The production of Marxist historians of philosophy who at the Institute of philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences systematically researched and re-evaluated the history of Czech philosophy culminated around 1958. A turning point came with the conference Philosophy in the History of the Czech Nation in Liblice, which brought [read more]
Marxist Revisionism and Its Critique of “Positivism”
e-mail: tomas_hribek@hotmail.com
One of the themes of Dialectics of the Concrete that has not attracted enough scholarly attention is Karel Kosík’s critique of what he calls “posivitism”. This kind of critique was shared by other Marxist “revisionists” in Eastern Europe at the time, such as Leszek Kolakowski, but its precise content is obscure. This obscurity is due to a wide variety [read more]
Karel Kosik and American Marxist Humanism
e-mail: peterhudis@aol.com
Karel Kosik’sDialectics of the Concrete represented a profound challenge to established Marxism because of its emphasis on the “indispensability of philosophy,” it’s searing critique of the photocopy theory of reality, and its attack of historicism for (in his words) “culling the absolute and the universal out of history.” Unknown to Kosik at the [read more]