Karel Kosķk (19262003) was one of the most remarkable Czech Marxist philosophers of the twentieth century. His reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical blockbuster Dialectics of the Concrete, first published in Czechoslovakia in 1963. In reintroducing Kosķks philosophy to English-speaking readers, we show that Kosķks work is important not only as a leading intellectual document of the Prague Spring, but also as an original theoretical contribution with international impact that sheds light on the meaning of labour and praxis, cognition and economic structure, and revolution and the crises of modernity.
Contributors include: Ian Angus, Siyaves Azeri, Vķt Barto, Jan ernż, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Diana Fuentes, Gabriella Fusi, Tomį Hermann, Tomį Hķbek, Xiaohan Huang, Peter Hudis, Petr Kuel, Ivan Landa, Michael Löwy, Jan Mervart, Anselm K. Min, Tom Rockmore, Francesco Tava, and Xinruo Zhang.
