عنوان

Dialectics of the Concrete :

(Number (ISBN

9401015201

(Number (ISBN

9789401015202

Number

b594299

Title Proper

Dialectics of the Concrete :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a Study on Problems of Man and World

First Statement of Responsibility

by Karel Kosík.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1976

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(176 pages)

Series Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 52.

Text of Note

I. Dialectics of the Concrete Totality --; The World of the Pseudoconcrete and Its Destruction --; The Spiritual and Intellectual Reproduction of Reality --; Concrete Totality --; Notes --; II. Economics and Philosophy --; Metaphysics of Everyday life --; Metaphysics of Science and Reason --; Metaphysics of Culture --; Notes --; III. Philosophy and Economy --; Problems of Marx's Capital --; Man and Thing, Or the Character of Economics --; Notes --; IV. Praxis and Totality --; Praxis --; History and Freedom --; Man --; Notes --; Index of Names.

Text of Note

Kosik writes that the history of a text is in a certain sense the history of its interpretations. In the fifteen years that have passed since the fust (Czech) edition of his Dialectics of the Concrete, this book has been widely read and interpreted throughout Europe, in diverse centers of scholarship as well as in private studies. A faithful English language edition is long overdue. This publication of KosIk's work will surely provoke a range of new interpretations. For its theme is the characterization of science and of rationality in the context of the social roots of science and the social critique which an appropriately rational science should afford. Kosik's question is: How shall Karl Marx's understanding of science itself be understood? And how can it be further developed? In his treatment of the question of scientific rationality, Kosik drives bluntly into the issues of gravest human concern, not the least of which is how to avoid the pseudo-concrete, the pseudo-scientific, the pseudo-rational, the pseudo­ historical. Starting with Marx's methodological approach, of "ascending from the abstract to the concrete", Kosik develops a critique of positivism, of phenomenalist empiricism, and of "metaphysical" rationalism, counter­ posing them to "dialectical rationalism". He takes the category of the concrete in the dialectical sense of that which comes to be known by the active transformation of nature and society by human purposive activity.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

by Karel Kosík.

Karel Kosík

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[Book]

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