Kosik on Dialectics
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It is widely known that Hegel formulates dialectical conceptions of the abstract and the concrete. But Marx is the first to rely on this approach to analyze the conception of capitalist commodities in Capital. Influenced by Marx, Kosik connects dialectics with social reality in proposing a theory of social epistemology, which [read more]
On “Dialectics of the Concrete” in Examining the Academic relationship between Marx and Engels. Analysis Kosik’s Concept of Dialectics and its Contemporary Significance
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50 years ago, Czech philosopher Kosik presented “Dialectics of the Concrete” in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Marxist context. It provided a new possibility to understand the nature of Marxist philosophy, which made dialectics into specific social and historical phenomenon depths, to avoid falling into the stereotype of “pseudo-concrete [read more]
Ontological Dialectic and A Critique of Modernity: Based on the Interpretation of Kosik’s ‘Concrete Totality’
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“Concrete Totality’ is a crucial concept in Karel Kosik’s book Dialectics of the Concrete. The category ‘totality’ anticipated in modern philosophy since Spinoza and has been elaborated in German classical philosophy as a central concept for distinguishing dialectics from traditional metaphysics. There is no doubt that the basic logical [read more]