Reviews for The Philosophy of the Beautiful (v. 1)

The average rating for The Philosophy of the Beautiful (v. 1) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-02 00:00:00 Joe Garcia I didn't work every problem, but I feel better prepared for the actual test.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-10 00:00:00 Jeffrey Tompkins Thought this one was kind of a mixed bag. There are a couple of strange translation errors that confused me (it refers to the “seventh section of chapter 24 in das kapital” (this chapter only has 5 sections; I eventually determined it was referring to the chapter as a whole, which is in part 7 of the book), and Korsch seemed to spend a lot of time repeating himself without becoming any more clear. However, his philosophical discoveries are interesting and unusual. His interpretation of dialectical materialism is notably more thoughtful and less deterministic than the usual “religion of history” criticism liberals often toss at Marxism. His explicit criticisms of post-great-war Marxism were simple, creative, and decisive (he castigates official Marxism-Leninism not for being unmaterialist, as Marxists usually do, but for being *undialectical*!). He brings a new stance to the debate on the philosophical differences between Marx, Engels, Lenin, & the CPSU that I had formerly believed I understood. An interesting book.