Preface to the American Edition | ix |
Acknowledgments | xi |
Editor’s Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Reason and Conscience | 13 |
Chapter 2 Our Current Crisis | 17 |
Chapter 3 Socialism and the Crisis of Modern Man | 53 |
Chapter 4 The Dialectics of Morality and the Morality of Dialectics | 63 |
Chapter 5 Hašek and Kafka, or, the World of the Grotesque | 77 |
Chapter 6 Švejk and Bugulma, or, The Birth of Great Humor | 87 |
Chapter 7 The Irreplaceable Nature of Modem Culture | 101 |
Chapter 8 Culture Against Nihilism | 103 |
Chapter 9 Three Observations on Machiavelli | 105 |
Chapter 10 Illusions and Realism | 109 |
Chapter 11 The Weight of Words | 113 |
Chapter 12 Neruda’s Enigma | 117 |
Chapter 13 The Individual and History | 123 |
Chapter 14 On the Czech Question | 135 |
Chapter 15 The Nation and Humanism | 137 |
Chapter 16 On Censorship and Ideology | 143 |
Chapter 17 What Is Central Europe? | 147 |
Chapter 18 “Two Thousand Words” and Hysteria | 181 |
Chapter 19 On Laughter | 183 |
Chapter 20 Havliček’s Principles of Democracy | 199 |
Chapter 21 The European Left | 203 |
Chapter 22 The Blindness of Sheer Faith | 205 |
Chapter 23 Intellectuals and Workers | 207 |
Chapter 24 A Word of Caution on Workers’ Councils | 209 |
Chapter 25 The Only Chance—An Alliance with the People | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
Select Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 235 |
About the Editor | 239 |
SOURCE: Kosík, Karel (1926-2003). The Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Observations from the 1968 Era, edited by James H. Satterwhite. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. xi, 239 pp. Contents: pp. vii- viii.
Note: On Hašek and Kafka, inter alia with respect to Kosík, see also:
Steiner, Peter. The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. See esp. chapter 1: Tropos Kynikos: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, pp. 25-68.
And see:
Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete, edited by Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, Jan Mervart. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. (Historical Materialism Book Series; 243)
The Individual and History by Karel Kosík
Man and Philosophy by Karel Kosík
Marx
and the Western World
edited by Nicholas Lobkowicz
Herbert
Marcuse: Letter to Karel Kosík, March 22, 1963
(trans. Charles Reitz)
Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography
Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)
Offsite:
Karel Kosík - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dialectics
of the Concrete: A Study on Problems of Man and World
by Karel Kosík
[editorial preface & chapter 1]
Letter:
Herbert Marcuse to Kosik, March 22, 1963
(trans. Charles Reitz)
Karel
Kosík (26 June 1926 - 21 February 2003)
(blog, 28 June 2015 - ) See esp. (by Karel Kosík):
The
Good Soldier Švejk: A Fool Against The System
(Artlark)
The
Good Soldier Švejk: A Fool Against The System
(Karel Kosík site)
The Democracy and the Myth of Cave
Grete samsa, the anti-Antigone of modern times
On Czech Marxism: An Interview with Ivan Landa and Jan Mervart
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