10 Result(s)

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Marx and Commodity Fetishism: Some Remarks on Method

The chapter deals with the status of the theory of fetishism in Marx’s critique of political economy. It seems that Marx has grasped fully the significance of commodity fetishism only in preparing the second G...

Vesa Oittinen in Confronting Capitalism in the 21st Century (2020)

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Which Kind of Dialectician Was Lenin?

The paper deals with the character of Lenin’s ‘dialectics,’ of which there has, until recently, been many erroneous interpretations. I attempt to show that Lenin’s idea of a dialectical method in most cases bo...

Vesa Oittinen in The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy (2018)

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Hegel’s spirit, Marxist aesthetics and Stalinist restoration: the tragic philosophy of history of Mikhail Lifshits

The article focuses on one highly idiosyncratic trait of Lifshits’ reading of Hegel, namely his assertion that the epoch of Restoration during which Hegel produced his main works was analogous to the period of...

Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2016)

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An interview with Dmitri Gutov

Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2016)

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Eine “kantianische utopie” in Russland: Erich Solov’ëv

A Kantian Utopia in Russia: Erikh Solov’ëv. The article deals with Erikh Solov’ëv (b. 1934), a historian of philosophy who is one of the best Soviet and post-Soviet exponents of Kant. In several of his works a...

Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2011)

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Introduction

Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2005)

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Evald Il’enkov as an Interpreter of Spinoza

E.V. Il’enkov is regarded as perhaps the most “Spinozist” of Soviet philosophers. He used Spinoza’s ideas extensively, especially in developing his concept of the ideal and in his attempts to give a more preci...

Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2005)

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Solov'ëvs Letzte Philosophie – Eine Annäherung an Kant?

In his last, uncompleted essayTeoreticheskaja filosofija (1897–1899)Vladimir Solov'ëv seems to acknowledge thecentral statements of Kant's epistemology andphilosophy of subjectivity in a manner whichhas lead many...

Vesa Oittinen in Studies in East European Thought (2003)