Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Notes on Authors -- ‎Introduction (Feinberg, Landa, Mervart) -- ‎1. Dialectics of the Concrete: Translation, Reception and Impact -- ‎2. About This Volume -- ‎Part 1. The Reform Years and the Origins of Dialectics of the Concrete -- ‎Chapter 1. Karel Kosík as a Public Intellectual of the Reform Years (Mervart) -- ‎1. The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia of the 1960s -- ‎2. Karel Kosík, Marxist Humanism and Dialectics of the Concrete in the Reform Years -- ‎3. Kosík and the Prague Spring of 1968 -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 2. Karel Kosík and His 'Radical Democrats': The Janus Face of Dialectics of the Concrete (Hermann) -- ‎1. Stalinism and the History of Czech Philosophy -- ‎2. Czech Radical Democracy and the Poverty of Czech Philosophy -- ‎3. The History of Philosophy as Philosophy and Dialectics of the Concrete -- ‎4. Conclusions -- ‎Part 2. Praxis and Labour -- ‎Chapter 3. Praxis in Progress: On the Transformations of Kosík's Thought (Tava) -- ‎1. Theory and Praxis in Dialectics of the Concrete -- ‎2. From Praxis to Moral Action -- ‎3. From Praxis to Play -- ‎4. On Humour and Laughter: Contrasting Normalisation -- ‎5. Tragedy and Sacrifice: Towards a New Idea of Action -- ‎Chapter 4. Labour and Time: Karel Kosík's Temporal Materialism (Landa) -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Practical Materialism -- ‎3. The Ontology of Labour -- ‎4. Temporal Materialism -- ‎5. Against Heidegger -- ‎6. Ontology Up-Side Down? -- ‎7. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Inception of Culture from the Ontology of Labour: The Original Contribution of Karel Kosík to a Marxian Theory of Culture (Angus) -- ‎1. Introduction: Human Being as Praxis -- ‎2. Ontology of Labour as the Foundation for Culture -- ‎3. Culture as Language -- ‎4. Individuation, Death and Laughter.

‎Chapter 6. 'The Philosophy of Labour' and Karel Kosík's Criticism of 'Care' (Azeri) -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Roots of Fetishism -- ‎3. Abstract Labour and the Philosophy of Labour -- ‎4. Criticism of 'Care' -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 7. Kosík, Lukács and the Thing in Itself (Rockmore) -- ‎1. On the Thing in Itself -- ‎2. Engels and Lukács on Cognition -- ‎3. Kosík on the Pseudo-concrete -- ‎4. Kosík on Marx and Economics -- ‎5. Kosík on Praxis and Constructivism -- ‎6. Conclusion: Kosík, Lukács and the Thing in Itself -- ‎Part 3. Modernity, Nation, and Globalisation -- ‎Chapter 8. The Ontological Dialectic and the Critique of Modernity: Based on the Interpretation of Kosík's Concrete Totality (Zhang and Huang) -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. From 'Concrete Totality' to the 'Ontological Dialectic' -- ‎3. Individuals and the Living World: From Marx to Kosík -- ‎4. The Critique of Modernity -- ‎5. What Can China Learn from Kosík? -- ‎6. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 9. And the 'Thing Itself' Is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of Humanity (Feinberg) -- ‎1. To Grasp Things by the Root -- ‎2. But for Man the Root Is Man -- ‎3. Man the Answer -- ‎4. Man the Question -- ‎5. Man Abstract -- ‎6. Man Concrete -- ‎7. Man the Product, Man the Problem -- ‎8. The Human Being in Plural -- ‎9. The Roots of Humanity - the People -- ‎Chapter 10. The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalisation: Karel Kosík's Dialectics of the Concrete Fifty Years Later (Min) -- ‎1. Dialectics of the Concrete Then -- ‎2. Dialectics of the Concrete Today -- ‎3. The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalisation: Towards a Trinitarian Dialectic of Totality, Infinity, and Solidarity -- ‎4. Conceiving [begreifen] Globalisation as Concrete Totality -- ‎5. Secular Humanism, Religion, and the Praxis of Global Solidarity -- ‎Part 4. Intellectual Encounters.

‎Chapter 11. Kosík's Notion of 'Positivism' (Hříbek) -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Kosík against Positivism -- ‎3. Between Lukács and Engels -- ‎4. Neurath on Holistic Empiricism -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 12. Kosík's Concept of 'Concrete Totality': A Structuralist Critique (Bartoš) -- ‎1. On False Totality -- ‎2. Structure in Process versus the Dialectic of Totality -- ‎3. Robustness and Concreteness -- ‎4. Conclusions -- ‎Chapter 13. The World of the Pseudoconcrete, Ideology and the Theory of the Subject (Kosík and Althusser) (Kužel) -- ‎1. The Destruction of Ideology -- ‎2. The Mystified Subject -- ‎3. The Non-reductionist Conception of the Subject -- ‎4. Badiou's Conception of the Subject -- ‎5. Kosík's Conception of the Subject -- ‎Chapter 14. Karel Kosík and Martin Heidegger: From Marxism to Traditionalism (Černý) -- ‎1. Heidegger within Dialectics of the Concrete: A Critical Dialogue -- ‎2. Kosík and Heidegger in the 1960s: Heideggerian Marxism -- ‎3. 1990-97: Metaphysical Democracy -- ‎4. Economy, Science, Technology -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎6. Postscript -- ‎Part 5. Influence and Reception -- ‎Chapter 15. A Route of Critical Thought: Between Italian and Czech Intellectuals (Fusi) -- ‎Chapter 16. Karel Kosík in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Dialectics of the Concrete (Fuentes) -- ‎1. The Publication of Dialectics of the Concrete in Spanish -- ‎2. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the Path to The Philosophy of Praxis -- ‎3. Affinities between Karel Kosík and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez -- ‎4. Alienation and the World of Pseudo-concrete -- ‎Chapter 17. Karel Kosík and US Marxist Humanism (Hudis) -- ‎1. Introduction: Marxism and Philosophy -- ‎2. Kosík on the Indispensability of Philosophy -- ‎3. Hegel's Absolutes and Marxism -- ‎4. The Future Inherent in the Present -- ‎Postscript: Looking Backwards.

‎Chapter 18. Spirit of Resistance: Notes for an Intellectual Biography of Karel Kosík (Löwy) -- ‎1. Meeting Karel Kosík: A Publication of His Collected Essays (1994-2003) -- ‎2. Karel Kosík's Intellectual Evolution -- ‎References -- ‎Index.

The eighteen articles in this book present fresh looks at the meaning of politics, praxis, labour, dialectics and modernity in the work of Czech philosopher Karel Kosík, best known for his book Dialectics of the Concrete.

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