Table of Contents
IAcknowledgements
Notes on Authors
Introduction
Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart
Part 1 The Reform Years and the Origins of Dialectics of the Concrete
1 Karel Kosik as a Public Intellectual of the Reform Years
Jan Mervart
2 Karel Kosik and His 'Radical Democrats': The Janus Face of Dialectics of the Concrete
Moving from a Historical to a Systematic Approach to Philosophy
Tomas Hermann
Part 2 Praxis and Labour
3 Praxis in Progress: On the Transformations of Kosik's Thought
Francesco Tava
4 Labour and Time: Karel Kosik's Temporal Materialism
Ivan Landa
5 Inception of Culture from the Ontology of Labour: The Original Contribution of Karel Kosik to a Marxian Theory of Culture
Ian Angus
6 'The Philosophy of Labour' and Karel Kosik's Criticism of 'Care'
Siyaves Azeri
7 Kosik, Lukacs and the Thing in Itself
Tom Rockmore
Part 3 Modernity, Nation, and Globalisation
8 The Ontological Dialectic and the Critique of Modernity: Based on the Interpretation of Kosik's Concrete Totality
Xinruo Zhang and Xiaohan Huang
9 And the 'Thing Itself' Is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of Humanity
Joseph Grim Feinberg
10 The Dialectic of Concrete Totality in the Age of Globalisation: Karel Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete Fifty Years Later
Anselm K. Min
Part 4 Intellectual Encounters
11 Kosik's Notion of 'Positivism'
Tomas Hřibek
12 Kosik's Concept of 'Concrete Totality': A Structuralist Critique
Vit Bartos
13 The World of the Pseudoconcrete, Ideology and the Theory of the Subject (Kosik and Althusser)
Petr Kužel
14 Karel Kosik and Martin Heidegger: From Marxism to Traditionalism
Jan Černy
Part 5 Influence and Reception
15 A Route of Critical Thought: Between Italian and Czech Intellectuals
Gabriella Fusi
16 Karel Kosik in Mexico: Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez and the Dialectics of the Concrete
Diana Fuentes
17 Karel Kosik and US Marxist Humanism
Peter Hudis
Postscript: Looking Backwards
18 Spirit of Resistance: Note for an Intellectual Biography of Karel Kosik
Michael Lowy
References
Index