Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete

Bys: Edited by Joseph Grim Feinberg, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ivan Landa, et al.

Karel Kos?k (1926-2003) was one of the most remarkable Czech Marxist philosophers of the twentieth century. His reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical 'blockbuster' Dialectics of the Concrete, first published in Czechoslovakia in 1963. In reintroducing Kos?k's philosophy to English-speaking readers, we show that Kos?k's work is 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, V?t Bartos, Jan Čern?, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Diana Fuentes, Gabriella Fusi, Tom?s Hermann, Tom?s Hř?bek, Xiaohan Huang, Peter Hudis, Petr Kuzel, Ivan Landa, Michael L?wy, Jan Mervart, Anselm K. Min, Tom Rockmore, Francesco Tava, and Xinruo Zhang.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004325360
• ISBN13: 9789004325364
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 396 Pages