Karel Kosík, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karel Kosík

Czech philosopher, literary theorist and university educator

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 21-Feb-2003

Profession: writer, pedagogue, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Karel Kosík (26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czech Marxist philosopher.
In his most famous philosophical work, Dialectics of the Concrete (1963), Kosík presents an original reinterpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx in light of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology.
His later essays can be called a sharp critique of the modern society from a leftist but not strictly Marxist position.