Thesis Eleven, Issue 159, August 2020 Eastern European Marxist Critical Theory

URL: https://thesiseleven.com/2020/08/29/issue-159-august-2020-eastern-european-marxist-critical-theory/

EASTERN EUROPEAN MARXIST CRITICAL THEORY

This special issue features papers delivered at the 2018 International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe (Sichuan University, Chengdu). The conference included Agnes Heller as guest of honour alongside renowned international and Chinese scholars. The event was sponsored by the College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University and Key Project of China National Social Science Fund “The Research of Eastern Europe Marxist Aesthetics” and co-sponsored by Thesis Eleven.

Guest editor: Professor Fu Qilin (Sichuan University)

INTRODUCTION:

MODERNITY, PRAXIS AND THE WORK OF ART: CONTEMPORARY THEMES IN EASTERN EUROPEAN CRITICAL THEORY

J.F. Dorahy

ARTICLES:

GEORG LUKÁCS AND LEO TOLSTOY

Agnes Heller, Deng Fengming

ON THINKING: OPEN LETTER TO HANNAH ARENDT

Agnes Heller, David Roberts, Peter Beilharz

SIX THEORETICAL PARADIGMS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN MARXIST AESTHETICS

Fu Qilin

REVISITING LUKÁCS’ THEORY OF REALISM

Galin Tihanov

AT THE CROSSROADS OF MARXISM AND STRUCTURALISM IN MODERN POLISH LITERARY THEORY (1918–1939): THE CASE OF WARSAW AND VILNIUS STUDENT CIRCLES

Danuta Ulicka

MARXIST CRITICISM OF SOVIET-TYPE SOCIETY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF EGON BONDY AFTER 1968

Petr Kužel

ART AS PRAXIS: DANKO GRLIĆ’S CONCEPTION OF ART BEYOND TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM

Marko Hočevar

BAUMAN IN CHINA

Qin Jiayang, Peter Beilharz

LAST BAUMAN/LOST BAUMAN: FIFTY YEARS ON – SKETCHES IN THE THEORY OF CULTURE (1968) – THE SUPPRESSED AND NOW FINAL BOOK OF ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (2018)

Peter Beilharz

BOOK REVIEWS:

SOCIAL THEORY NOW

Rachel Busbridge (A prepublication version of this review is freely available here)

MULTICULTURAL POLITICS OF RECOGNITION AND POSTCOLONIAL CITIZENSHIP

Nicolas Pirsoul (A prepublication version of this review is freely available here)

COUNTERREVOLUTION: THE GLOBAL RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT

Erwin Rafael

FOUCAULT: THE BIRTH OF POWER

Peter Beilharz

FOUCAULT’S LAST DECADE

Mitchell Dean