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.

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 Hibek

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 erny

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