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 Hribek 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 Kuzel 14 Karel Kosik and Martin Heidegger: From Marxism to Traditionalism Jan cerny 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.