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Karel Kosík (June 26, 1926 – February 21, 2003) was a Czech Neomarxist philosopher. In his most...

Karel Kosík (June 26, 1926 – February 21, 2003) was a Czech Neomarxist philosopher. In his most famous philosophical work Dialectics of the Concrete (1963) Kosík presents original synthesis of Martin Heidegger's version of phenomenology and ideas of Young Marx. His later essays can be called as a sharp critique of the modern society from the leftist conservative position. Karel Kosík was born in June 26, 1926 in Prague. From September 1, 1943 until his arrestment by Gestapo in November 17, 1944, he was a member of an illegal anti-nazi communist resistance group Předvoj (The Vanguard) and a chief editor of an illegal journal Boj mladých (The Fight of Youth). After his seizure Kosík was accused of high treason and repeatedly questioned. From January 30 to May 5, 1945 he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp. From 1945 to 1947 Kosík studied philosophy and sociology at the Charles University in Prague. In the years 1947-1949 also attended courses at the Leningrad University and the Moscow State University in the USSR. In 1963 he published his opus Dialectics of the Concrete, a re-working of Marxian categories in terms of humanist phenomenology, which earned him an