Karel Kosík
Karel Kosík | |
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| Born | 26 June 1926 |
| Died | 21 February 2003 (aged 76) Prague, Czech Republic |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Charles University in Prague Leningrad University (no degree) Moscow State University (no degree) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Marxist humanism |
| Main interests | Social philosophy, politics, ethics, aesthetics |
| Notable ideas | Dialectics of the concrete |
Karel Kosík (Czech: [ˈkosiːk]; 26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czech Marxist philosopher. In his most famous philosophical work, Dialectics of the Concrete (1963), Kosík presents an original reinterpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx in light of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology. His later essays can be called a sharp critique of the modern society from a leftist but not strictly Marxist position.