The crisis of modernity : essays and observations from the 1968 era
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The crisis of modernity : essays and observations from the 1968 era
（States and societies in East Central Europe）
Rowman & Littlefield, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
These essays, containing the reflections of the most influential philosopher of the "Prague Spring," deal with the crisis of state, party, society, and the individual in Czechoslovakia existing up until December 1969. Known primarily to English-speaking audiences as the author of Dialectics of the Concrete, Kosik is recognized for his contribution to the ongoing scholarship intended to relate Marx's ideas to the contemporary world. All of the essays in this collection appeared originally in Czechoslovakia over a period from 1961 to 1969. This edition, making most of them available to English readers for the first time, includes a new preface by Kosik and reflects his own changes to the earlier versions, incorporating material which was cut out by censors at their original publication.
Table of Contents
- Reason and Consciousness
- Our Present Crisis
- Socialism and the Crisis of Modern Man
- The Dialectics of Morality and the Morality of Dialectics
- Hasek and Kafka, or the World of the Grotesque
- The Irreplaceable Nature of the Grotesque
- On the Czech Question
- Three Observations on Machiavelli
- Illusions and Realism
- The Weight of Words
- Neruda's Enigma
- The Individual and History.
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