Labour and Struggle for Recognition: Kosík´s Concept of Praxis
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The aim of this paper is to inquire into the principles of Kosík´s social ontology, which he sketched in his book Dialectics of the Concrete. The central question of this book concerns the elementary structure of social reality and the way how it is produced. [read more]
Karel Kosik’s Realism thought and its philosophical significance
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In study of philosophy, the problems of man and world are the basic one. In dialectics of the concrete, KarelKosik attempted to apply the thought of Marx’s materialist dialectic to answer the question. However, the crux of the matter is how to illuminate the problems of man and world is the dialectic?
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Gramsci’s and Kosik’s notions on Philosophy of praxis revisited
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In July-August 1967 issue of Yugoslav philosophical magazine Praxis Karel Kosik has published a short article titled »Gramsci i filozofija praxisa« (»Gramsci and the philosophy of praxis«). Even though Kosik has mentioned him in the title, Gramsci’s name appears just three times in the article, all of which in the introductory paragraph. In the [read more]
Karel Kosík as a Public Intellectual of the Reform Years
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As a key figure of the Czech humanist Marxism of the 1960s, Karel Kosik belonged to the most influential personalities of his era. His Dialectics of the Concrete that was published at the beginning of the delayed Czechoslovak de-Stalinization (1963) was not only an interesting contribution to the Marxist thought, but it was also [read more]
The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalization: KarelKosik’sDialectics of the Concrete Fifty Years Later
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When the Dialectics of the Concrete was first published in 1963, it was rightly hailed as one of the finest critical syntheses of Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger, perhaps comparable to Georg Lukac’sHistory and Class Consciousness, a comprehensive restatement of historical materialism [read more]
The Relation of Kosik’s Dialectical Philosophy to Marx’s Dialectical Method: Where to Begin and Why Does that Matter?
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While the DIALECTICS OF THE CONCRETE tries to bring out the internal relations between ontology, epistemology, inquiry, exposition and praxis in Marxism, Kosik’s chief emphasis is on ontology and its influence on these other aspects of Marx’s method. But if all these aspects are internally related, one could, in principle, [read more]
Karel Kosik and “philosophy of man”
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In Dialectics of the Concrete, Kosik reintroductes the dialectics of concrete totality(“philosophy of man”) as the kernel of Marxism in order to opposes the orthodox soviet Marxism-Leninism. In other words, he try to create an Marxism with a human face. According to Kosik, “Philosophy in the true meaning of the word is always
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