EXPERIMENTÁLNÍ HLEDÁNÍ KARLA KOSÍKA (K FILOZOFICKÉMU A LITERÁRNÍMU DISKURSU JEHO DÍLA)
EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHING OF KAREL KOSÍK (TO THE PHILOSPHICAL AND LITERARY DISCOURSE IF HIS WORK)

Summary/Abstract: In his work Dialektika konkrétního (Dialectics of the Concrete, 1963) Kosík as a philosopher and an advocate of thinking labelled the artifically construed reality, propagated here through ideological after the 1948, as „a world od pseudoconcretenes existing as a chiaroscuro of truth and deception“. Thus he opened the door to a more independent thinking and together with many opther writes of that time he searched for philosophical interpretations of the problems of modern time in his further studies. The study Hašek a Kafka neboli groteskní svět (Hašek and Kafka or the Grotesque World, 1963) seems to have played a key role in the course of his development. The writing of these two authors mirrors the depth of alienation. For Kosík, a literary work becomes a synthesis of a philosophical and an artistic views of reality. This train of thouht is further developed in other essays, as in Století Markéty Samsové (Markéta Samsová’s Century, 1993). The heroine of Kafka’s novella Proměna (Metamorphos) is interpreted as an Anti-Angona of 20th century; Kosík shows that reification and alienation leads to the model situations in history which should be followed (Jan Hus, Karel Havlíček, T. G. Masaryk and others). His attitude to the above-mentioned problems could be convincingly exeplified with his essay Jinoch a smrt (The Youth and the Death, 1994) found in the book Předpotopní úvahy (Antediluvian Meditations, 1997) and it is also present in Poslední eseje (Last Essays, 2004) which attract attention to a serious danger brought about by people’s orientation towards the consumer way of life. The influence artistic literature had on Kosík’s thinking manifests itself in all the pleases of his development; the idea of beauty could be seen as an important impetus of his creative work.

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