Situated Marxism

Situated Marxism

Theoretical Practices in State Socialist Europe

Situated Marxism analyzes theoretical practices in postwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on their own terms and within their institutional, social, and historical contexts. Challenging enduring narratives of dogma and decline, twelve case studies from across the region trace how Marxist thought engaged with science, ecology, global futures, and Western philosophy, and how these engagements shaped new understandings of orthodoxy. The volume reveals a rich intellectual tradition with continuing relevance to today’s debates on knowledge, crisis, and social justice.
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Editors

Adela Hincu

Adela Hîncu is an intellectual historian whose work focuses on the history of social sciences, Marxist social theory, and women’s political thought in East Central Europe after the Second World War. Currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, she is conducting research on the transnational history of social expertise from Eastern Europe from the 1970s to the early 2000s.

Stefan Baghiu

Stefan Baghiu is lecturer of Romanian literature and literary theory at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and editor of the Transilvania journal. His research consists of quantitative analysis and ideological readings of Romanian literature and world literature. He has co-edited several collective volumes, such as Ruralism and Literature in Romania (2019) and Beyond the Iron Curtain (2021).

Alex Cistelecan

Alex Cistelecan is a researcher in philosophy and history of ideas, specializing in Marxism and state socialism. He holds a PhD in political theory from LUISS University (Rome). He has published articles in Historical Materialism, Telos, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Studies in East European Thought, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Christian Ferencz-Flatz

Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher and media scholar. His works include Critical Theory and Phenomenology (2023). and Film as a Social Situation (2018). Together with Radu Jude, he co-authored the found footage film Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024). He is the PI of a research project devoted to post-socialist advertising.
Title
Situated Marxism
Subtitle
Theoretical Practices in State Socialist Europe
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9789633868751
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eBook ePub
Number of pages
322
Language
English
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
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Eastern Central Europe
Modern History
Sociology and Social History
Discipline
Academic - History and Politics
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Table of Contents
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Adela Hîncu, Stefan Baghiu, Alex Cistelecan, Christian Ferencz-Flatz - Introduction: Situating Marxism in State Socialist Europe
PART I: The Making and Unmaking of Orthodoxy
Alex Cistelecan - Orthodoxy Unraveled: Diamat and Histomat in Communist Romania
Bakar Berekashvili - Marxism, Science, and Society in Soviet Georgia
Monika Wozniak - Towards New Orthodoxy: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in Jaros.aw .adosz and Czes.aw Nowi.ski
Ondrej Holub - Open-Minded Determinism: The Life and Ideas of Rudolf .íma
PART II: Global Issues, Socialist Concerns
Christian Ferencz-Flatz and Adela Hîncu - From Ecological Crisis to Ecological Revolution: Marxist Reflections on The Limits to Growth in Romania
Jan Mervart - Global Studies and Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Stefan Baghiu and Alex Cistelecan - Romanian Communist Futurology as Diamat without Dialectics
Una Blagojevic - (Un)orthodoxy of the Human Rights in Yugoslavia: Genealogy and Contestations
PART III: Marxist Resignifications
Jan Surman - The Making of a Western Socialist Scholar: J.D. Bernal in Eastern Europe
Ádám Takács - Althusser Goes East: Theoretical (Anti)Humanism, the Lukács School, and the Specter of Stalinism
Martin Küpper - Aesthetic Functionalism: A Design Concept for Socialism in the GDR?
Siyaves Azeri - Humanism vs. Scientism? An Ilyenkovian Critique of Capital’s Dualities and Dichotomies .

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