Rehabilitate Marx!

The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post-Stalinist Modernity

AvJan Mervart,Jiří Růžička

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary challenge they were facing wasn’t merely the further development of socialism, which would lead to communism: they would need to reformulate the entire socialist project. These intellectuals gradually abandoned the Marxist orthodoxy of their time and began searching for new interpretations of classic Marxist works that would provide an adequate conceptual framework for addressing contemporary problems. Mervart and Růžička present post-Stalinist thought as an autonomous sphere, showing a world of varying socialist visions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:575 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822967743

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Jan Mervart (Author) Jan Mervart is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of several books and is coeditor of Czechoslovakism (Routledge, 2021) and Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete (Brill, 2021). He is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Contradictions.Jiří Růžička (Author) Jiří Růžička is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is editor and cotranslator of the Czech translation of Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy (Filosofia, 2019) and a member of the editorial collective of the journal Contradictions.

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This important study of post-Stalinist thought between the mid-1950s and 1968 in Czechoslovakia considers it as a coherent intellectual space overcoming the limitations of orthodox Marxism. Through its recovery of reflexivity and mediation, Rehabilitate Marx! articulates a concept of universal humanity that ultimately failed by narrowing it into the nation and modernity. A valuable contribution to the legacy of Marxism through a detailed and analytical history of one of its most important periods.