Open AccessMaterialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (I)
Author(s) -
Alex Cistelecan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transilvania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 0255-0539
DOI - 10.51391/trva.2021.11-12.02.
Subject(s) - marxist philosophy , dialectical materialism , communism , dialectic , historical materialism , materialism , epistemology , social science , philosophy , sociology , law , political science , politics
The article (to be published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and evolution of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looks at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfigurations of Soviet Marxist philosophy until the death of Stalin) and the initial local configuration, as seen in the first two editions of the handbooks, published in the early 50’s and early 60’s respectively. The second part of the article will follow this evolution further, up to 1989, and will conclude by developing a series of observations on the uses and abuses of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania.