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- Title
Czechoslovak Marxist humanism and the revolution.
- Authors
Mervart, Jan
- Abstract
Despite their emphasis on humanism and human individuality, Marxist humanists did not deny the importance of social revolutionary change. In the era of the 1960s, revolution still ranked among the central questions with which Marxist humanists were preoccupied. Czechoslovak Marxist humanists' efforts to develop a new concept of revolution fit firmly within the overall pattern of post-Stalinist thought. I discuss the works of Karel Kosík and Robert Kalivoda in order to present Czechoslovak Marxist humanism as an intrinsically variable intellectual current. An analysis of Kosík's and Kalivoda's texts reveals a general pattern within Marxist humanism, while at the same time revealing its specific Hegelian and structuralist variants.
- Subjects
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN politics &; government; MARXIST philosophy; HUMANISM; REVOLUTIONS; KOSIK, Karel; KALIVODA, Robert; HISTORY
- Publication
Studies in East European Thought, 2017, Vol 69, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0925-9392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11212-017-9279-8