Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642598208 ISBN 13: 9781642598209

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2023

Synopsis

Karel Kosík (1926-2003) reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical 'blockbuster' Dialectics of the Concrete, first published in Czechoslovakia in 1963. In reintroducing Kosik's philosophy to English-speaking readers, Kosik's work is shown to be important not only as a leading intellectual document of the Prague Spring, but also as an original theoretical contribution with international impact that sheds light on the meaning of labour and praxis, cognition and economic structure, and revolution and the crises of modernity.

Contributors include: Ian Angus, Siyaves Azeri, Vit Bartos, Jan Černy, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Diana Fuentes, Gabriella Fusi, Tomas Hermann, Tomas Hřibek, Xiaohan Huang, Peter Hudis, Petr Kužel, Ivan Landa, Michael Lowy, Jan Mervart, Anselm K. Min, Tom Rockmore, Francesco Tava, and Xinruo Zhang.

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About the Authors

Joseph Grim Feinberg is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Czech Academy of Sciences. He is author of The Paradox of Authenticity and editor of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.

Ivan Landa is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published articles and chapters on Hegel and the history of Marxism. He is a co-editor of the Collected Works of Karel Kosík planned for 7 volumes (in Czech).

Jan Mervart is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published monographs and articles on the intellectual history of Czechoslovakia. He is the co-editor of Czechoslovakism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642598208
• ISBN 13: 9781642598209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Grim Feinberg Joseph, Landa Ivan, Mervart Jan