Karel KosÃk
Karel Kosík ( born June 26, 1926 in Prague, † February 21, 2003 ibid ), was a Czech Marxist philosopher and literary theorist.
Life
During the Second World War, he attended high school at which he left the resistance movement Předvoj joined. On 17 November 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the fortress of Theresienstadt. In 1945 he passed his Abitur in Prague and studied philosophy at the Charles University. From 1947 to 1949 was carried out to study at universities in Moscow and Leningrad.
In 1953 he took up the post of research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy ČSAV, 1968, he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague. 1968 to 1969 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in 1970 he was expelled from the party. Until 1989, he was allowed to be active as a lecturer, his publications were published only abroad.
In 1990 he returned to the University and held until 1992 lectures. He then worked in the philosophical institute.
Person
Kosík was heavily influenced by the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger. He was principally concerned with practical philosophical problems and the crisis of modern society, the philosophy of Czech history, Czech history and the political views expressed in this document as well as the culture of his homeland.
Works
In addition to numerous books and collections, he wrote articles, which dealt with philosophical problems. In his early works he was an orthodox Marxist, in the 60 years he was among the reformist intellectuals.