Art between reflection and project
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Unlike Karl Marx, the questions relative to the art were more treated in Karel Kosik’s Dialectics of Concrete. But as Marx the analysis of the art to Kosik is profoundly connected to their dialectical thought which treats art not as only representation or illustration of the reality. Because it is a method of thought, the implemented dialectic [read more]
Herbert Marcuse’s and Karel Kosík’s Heideggerian Marxism – one title for two different matters
e-mail: martin.profant@seznam.cz
Kosík’s Dialectics of the Concrete admits thematically and terminologically strong inspiration by Heidegger’s philosophy from era of Sein und Zeit. In essays from second half of sixties and nineties is provable inspired reading of Heidegger’s later works. Therefore analogically to Herbert Marcuse is Kosík sometimes mentioned as [read more]
Kosik, Lukács and the Thing in Itself
e-mail: rockmore@duq.edu
Engels, who appears to take Marx and Marxism as synonymous terms, asserts but does show that Marx and/or Marxism solve the main problems of German Idealism. This point is later argued in detail by Lukács and by Korsch. In History and Class Consciousness, Lukács famously claims that Marxism solves the unsolved problem of the [read more]
The Freedom and Necessity Dialectic: Marcuse, Kosik, and Today
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In Dialectics of the Concrete, Karel Kosik sharply focuses on the realm of necessity and realm of freedom as the core concepts underlying the dialectic of labor, praxis, and post-capitalist society. On the way to disclosing the central position of this dialectic, Kosik criticizes a central concept of Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution, the [read more]
Kosik’s Dialectics of Concrete Totality
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Setting out from the categories of totality and histori(ci)sm in Kosik’s dialectics of the concrete, we look at the relationship between theory and practice: empty, abstract totality versus conrete, reified and alienated practice (Lukacs, Habermas, Honneth); a bad totality, in which the real polydimensional subject is replaced
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Dialectic of Unfolding in Hegel, Marx, and Kosík
e-mail: mt91@nyu.edu
My paper focuses on three important aspects found in Kosík’s book: the theory of essence; the conception of the character of the concrete; and the conception of dialectic as a process of unfolding. I draw from both Hegel and Marx to supplement Kosík’s arguments, and propose the following scheme of the dialectic of the concrete: (1) The [read more]
A Red Thread Between Milan and Prague. Guido Neri´s Interpretation of Kosík´s Dialectics of the Concrete
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The aim of this presentation consists in showing the tight bond between Karel Kosík and the Italian philosopher Guido Neri. The philosophy of Neri, whose grounds were both Husserlian phenomenology and Marxism, was deeply influenced by the thought of Kosík, who became a friend
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