Kosík and Gramsci: An Assessment on Marxist Notions of Totality and Praxis
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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
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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]
Marxist Revisionism and Its Critique of “Positivism”
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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
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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]
“Concrete Totality” and “Structuralist Totality”. The comparison of Kosik and Althusser’s explanation on the Marx’s Theory of History
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Karel Kosik interprets the reality as the “structural, evolving, self-forming whole” by “concrete totality” in his work Dialectics of the concrete, and he bases this standpoint to explain the Marx’s theory of history. So there is a sharply contrast between the Kosik’s explanation on the Marx’s theory of history and the Louis Althusser’s explanation in [read more]
The Reception and Critique of Kosík´s Dialectics of the Concrete in Czechoslovakia between 1963 and 1969
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In my talk I would like to acquaint the audience with responses to Karel Kosík’s most influential work – The Dialectics of the Concrete. I will direct my attention to responses published in the former Czechoslovakia by philosophers and other thinkers between years 1963 and 1969 with emphasis on journals Filosofický časopis, [read more]
The World of the Pseudoconcrete, Ideology and Theory of the Subject
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The aim of this paper is to explore the links between Kosík’s conception of the pseudoconcrete and Althusser’s conception of the ideology. According to Kosík a phenomenal forms of reality are “diverse and often contradict to law of the phenomenon, the structure of the things.” This collection of phenomena that penetrate [read more]