Marxism and existentialism in state socialist Czechoslovakia
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09493-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11212-022-09493-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Marxism and existentialism in state socialist Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Existentialism became one of the most fashionable philosophical currents in postwar Czechoslovakia. Whereas the orthodox Marxism of the 1950s, following Lukacs’s Marxism or existentialism?, hastily condemned existentialism as an offshoot of bourgeois idealism, Marxists of the 1960s viewed existentialism as a philosophical current that deserved, at the least, serious examination. During the subsequent era of Czechoslovak “real” socialism of the 1970s and 1980s, existentialism was, as a result, interpreted as one of the sources of the 1968 “counterrevolution”. This article maps and analyzes the official Marxist reception of existentialism in the course of the Stalinist, post-Stalinist and so-called real socialist periods of Czechoslovak history. However, its main focus is on the post-Stalinist period, when Czechoslovak philosophy benefited from a lively debate between Marxism and existentialism. Some participants in this debate considered existentialism to be an important rival to Marxism, one that posed the very same questions yet offered slightly different answers. At the center of the polemics lay the existentialist categories of being, existence, and freedom.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studies in East European Thought
ISSN
0925-9392
e-ISSN
1573-0948
Volume of the periodical
75
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
399-416
UT code for WoS article
000854694600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85138056206