Situated Marxism Theoretical Practices in State Socialist Europe

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 Woźniak - Towards New Orthodoxy: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in Jaroslaw Ladosz and Czeslaw Nowinski

Ondřej Holub - Open-Minded Determinism: The Life and Ideas of Rudolf Síma

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 Blagojevć - (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

Biography

Adela Hîncu is an intellectual historian of Marxist social theory, social sciences, and women’s political thought in East Central Europe after the Second World War.

Stefan Baghiu is a literary scholar researching Romanian literature, cultural ideologies, and global literary circulation, with a focus on socialist cultural production.

Alex Cistelecan is a philosopher researching the history of Marxism, state socialism, and critical theory.

Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher and media scholar, specializing in phenomenology, critical theory, and the study of useful media, with a focus on socialist and postsocialist Europe.