Original scientific paper

Gajo Petrović and the Question of Dialectic

Katarzyna Bielińska-Kowalewska orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-3276 ; Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

In this article the question of dialectic in Gajo Petrović’s philosophy is analysed in the context of contemporary debates on the “Heideggerian period” of the young Herbert Marcuse and the very possibility of phenomenological Marxism. Petrović’s philosophical starting point was undogmatically understood dialectical materialism. During his intellectual development, Petrović departed from this idea, passed through the philosophy of practice, and ended up with thinking the revolution, at the same time dissociating his thought from anthropological humanism. Searching for an answer to his ontological-epistemological anthropological question, he turned not only to Marx and his followers, but also to Heidegger. His approach, like that of Marcuse, provokes many difficulties in relation to dialectical movement.

Keywords

Gajo Petrović; Herbert Marcuse; Martin Heidegger; Marxism; dialectic; practice; being; alienation; negation

Hrčak ID:

118789

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118789

Publication date:

7.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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