K Kosik
Biographic Data
| ID | 6089586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Kosik |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosik |
| SIGNATURE | KOSIK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Third Munich
Czechoslovakia has broken down. Yet many Czech commentators are buying, praising, and even reading Ferdinand Peroutka's classic work on the Czechoslovak state. This is unsettling. Was the break-up unavoidable after 1989? Was it a kind of natural catastrophe that could have been avoided? Or was it the result of conscious action? §1 Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 as a renewal of the Czech state. “The Czechs have a historical right to an indepen…
The Dialectic of Morality and the Morality of the Dialectic
It is important to differentiate between those theories on the one hand, that in principle are in a position to come to grips with major questions but, for whatever reasons, have remained incomplete, and those, on the other, which are incapable of ever doing that because they are simply unable to do so. For instance, Plekhanov's theory of art has never come close to a systematic analysis of art and, subsequently, was not capable of determining th…
The Kosik-Sartre Exchange
The event of which I will tell you in this open letter is of the most banal sort and without any interest for the sensationalist press. But it is not to the devotees of the sensational that I address myself. It is to you. And, through you, to my socialist, democratic and communist friends who are also friends of Czechoslovakia. I am not addressing you an appeal or a protest, but one single question which has a vital importance for me: Am I guilty…
Our Present Crisis
The regime that had a monument erected only to have it torn down right away, had no inclination of the true meaning of its actions, and in particular, it never realized that through its action, the metaphysics of the modern times is exposed: provisionalism and nihilism. What more telling way is there to depict nothingness and ephemeral transcience than by a monument which, designed to “last forever”, hardly survives a few months? The regime that …
Reason and History
Before becoming conscious of himself as an historical agent, man makes history and lives in it. But historical consciousness, the discoverer of history as an essential dimension of human reality, does not reveal per se the truth about the nature of history. In the tradition of classic historicism from Vico to Hegel, each profound interpretation whose purpose is to express the specificity of history is characterized by mystification. Thus, it appe…
The Concrete Totality
The category of totality, which was first introduced in modern philosophy by Spinoza with his natura naturans and natura naturata, has been elaborated in classical German philosophy as one of the central concepts which polemically distinguished dialectics from metaphysics. The viewpoint of the totality, which comprises reality in its intimate laws and reveals the internal, necessary connections underlying the superficiality and contingency of phe…
Dialectic of the Concrete Totality
The dialectic deals with the « thing in itself ». But the « thing in itself » is not immediately given to man. In order to come to comprehend it, it is necessary not only to exert a certain effort, but also to make a detour. Because of this, dialectical thought distinguishes between the representation and the concept of the thing. By this it does not simply mean to distinguish two forms or two degrees of knowledge of reality, but first and foremo…
No prominent works on this page.
Dialectic of the Concrete Totality
The dialectic deals with the « thing in itself ». But the « thing in itself » is not immediately given to man. In order to come to comprehend it, it is necessary not only to exert a certain effort, but also to make a detour. Because of this, dialectical thought distinguishes between the representation and the concept of the thing. By this it does not simply mean to distinguish two forms or two degrees of knowledge of reality, but first and foremo…
Reason and History
Before becoming conscious of himself as an historical agent, man makes history and lives in it. But historical consciousness, the discoverer of history as an essential dimension of human reality, does not reveal per se the truth about the nature of history. In the tradition of classic historicism from Vico to Hegel, each profound interpretation whose purpose is to express the specificity of history is characterized by mystification. Thus, it appe…
The Concrete Totality
The category of totality, which was first introduced in modern philosophy by Spinoza with his natura naturans and natura naturata, has been elaborated in classical German philosophy as one of the central concepts which polemically distinguished dialectics from metaphysics. The viewpoint of the totality, which comprises reality in its intimate laws and reveals the internal, necessary connections underlying the superficiality and contingency of phe…
Our Present Crisis
The regime that had a monument erected only to have it torn down right away, had no inclination of the true meaning of its actions, and in particular, it never realized that through its action, the metaphysics of the modern times is exposed: provisionalism and nihilism. What more telling way is there to depict nothingness and ephemeral transcience than by a monument which, designed to “last forever”, hardly survives a few months? The regime that …
The Kosik-Sartre Exchange
The event of which I will tell you in this open letter is of the most banal sort and without any interest for the sensationalist press. But it is not to the devotees of the sensational that I address myself. It is to you. And, through you, to my socialist, democratic and communist friends who are also friends of Czechoslovakia. I am not addressing you an appeal or a protest, but one single question which has a vital importance for me: Am I guilty…
The Dialectic of Morality and the Morality of the Dialectic
It is important to differentiate between those theories on the one hand, that in principle are in a position to come to grips with major questions but, for whatever reasons, have remained incomplete, and those, on the other, which are incapable of ever doing that because they are simply unable to do so. For instance, Plekhanov's theory of art has never come close to a systematic analysis of art and, subsequently, was not capable of determining th…
The Third Munich
Czechoslovakia has broken down. Yet many Czech commentators are buying, praising, and even reading Ferdinand Peroutka's classic work on the Czechoslovak state. This is unsettling. Was the break-up unavoidable after 1989? Was it a kind of natural catastrophe that could have been avoided? Or was it the result of conscious action? §1 Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 as a renewal of the Czech state. “The Czechs have a historical right to an indepen…
Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)