Papers in Politics, Science and Philosophy by Joost Kircz
Editorial work
1990's Editor in Chief, Publishing house SYNDIKAAT. A small initiative by some academics for specialised publications on social history.
Joost Kircz, Marcel van der Linden en Fritjof Tichelman (eds). Het Sovjetraadsel:poging tot begrip van de oosteuropese maatschappij. ULL-Toestanden-Boeken, Antwerpen, 1983.
Theodor Bergmann/ Mario Kessler/ Joost Kircz/ Gert Schäfer (Hrsg.). Zwischen Utopie und Kritik. Friedrich Engels - ein "Klassiker" nach 100 Jahren. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1996.
Joost Kircz and Michael Löwy , Guest Editors. Special Issue: Friedrich Engels- A Critical Centenary Appreciation. Science & Society, vol.62. Number 1. Spring 1998.
Joost Kircz and Murray Smith (eds.) Living our Internationalism: The first 30 years of the IIRE. Amsterdam 2010.
As of 2022, Natural Science Editor of Marxism and Scienses.
Publications
Nederlands
De vijand van mijn vijand is nog niet mijn vriend.
In: A. Koper, C. Vecht en M. van Weezel (redaktie), Alles moest anders: Het
onvervuld verlangen van een linkse generatie. Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam,
1991, pg 150-163.
De lezer van mijn recensie (zie verder) kan zich voorstellen dat er enig drama
was voor de redaktie mijn bijdrage aanvaardde. Daarom staat hier de oorspronkelijke
tekst beschikbaar.
Alles moest anders: Een nieuwe generatie spijtoptanten dient zich aan.
In: W. Bot en M. van der Linden (redaktie), Kritiek 1991: Jaarboek voor socialistische
discussie en analyse. Stichting Toestanden, Utrecht 1991, pg 139-148. Kopie
van kopij.
De Maakbaarheid van de Wereld: over Natuur, Arbeid en Dialektiek.
In: W. Bot, M. van der Linden, R.Went (redaktie), Kritiek 1993: Jaarboek voor
socialistische discussie en analyse. Stichting Toestanden, Utrecht 1993, pg
143-171.
Commentaar bij Bertell Ollmans: Why Dialectics ? Why Now? Science & Society Vol.62, Nr.3, Fall 1998. pp. 338-357. Voor: De Internationale
Het Groene dak van Amsterdam. Maya Carbin, Sisis Nutt, Marijke Overmars, mmv Joost Kircz. Amsterdam Anders/De Groenen. Maart 2005. 26 pp.
Voor een Anders Amsterdam. Deelraadsfracties Amsterdam centrum van Amsterdam Anders/De Groenen en de Socialistische Partij. januari 2010. 50pp.
Ter herinnering aan Fritjof Tichelman: juni 2011.
Lezing 33ste lustrum WLG Vnica 28-11-2015. Mensenrechten, genetica, beschaving en hoe verder.
Het belang van Friedrich Engels voor een hedendaagse materialistische epistemologie.
2020: Op:
www.Marxists.org
Dit is een eerdere Nederlandse versie van: Joost Kircz
(2022) Friedrich Engels' importance for contemporary materialist epistemology
(zie beneden)
English
Materialism and the "Makability" of the World. IIRE Working Paper 32, IIRE Amsterdam, March 1994. 21 pages. http://www.iire.org/publications.html
Joost Kircz and Michael Löwy.
Introduction.
In: Joost Kircz and Michael Löwy (Guest Editors). Special issue: Friedrich
Engels- A Critical Centenary Appreciation. Science & Society, vol.62. Number
1. Spring 1998. pp. 4-12.
Engels and Natural Science: A
starting point.
In: Joost Kircz and Michael Löwy (Guest Editors). Special issue: Friedrich
Engels- A Critical Centenary Appriciation. Science & Society, vol.62. Number
1. Spring 1998. pp. 62-78.
Looking back and setting a new stage: In: Joost Kircz and Murray Smith (eds.) Living our Internationalism: The first 30 years of the IIRE. IIRE Notebook for Study and Reserach, vol 41. Amsterdam 2010. pp 12-18.
Elements of an essay on
Human Change (version 2011)
Chapter in (Sara Faris ed.) Returns to Marxism. Marxist Theory in a Time
of Crisis.
IIRE Amsterdam 2015. 21 pages.
Haymarket Books
published the book for the international market early 2016. ISBN: 978-1-60846-574-3.
Technological Utopianism in the early USSR, and what does that mean for
us now.
IIRE
Workingpaper 40. June 2014. 12 pages
Reality, knowledge and forecasting.
Essay based on my presentation at the
conference: Le troisième âge du capitalisme, sa physionomie
socio-politique à l’orée du XXIe siècle. En mémoire
d’Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), May, 20-22, 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
English version, as
IIRE Working paper 41., 27 pages. Also in French.
E. Mandel: The role of the curious intellectual in de class struggle.
Talk at Conference "Trends of Revolutionary Marxism in Greece". Organised
by the Institute of Social and Political Research "Pandelis Pouliopoulos",
Athens, 27-29 May 2016.
English version: E.
Mandel: "The role of the curious intellectual in de class struggle"
Science: model, icon, and the subjective factor. For
PDF
Paper presented at the 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference: Limits,
Barriers and Border, SOAS, London, 9-13 November 2016.
4 ways of dealing with Science and Marxism. For
PDF
Paper presented at the 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference: Limits,
Barriers and Border, SOAS, London, 9-13 November 2016.
Joost Kircz and Marcel van der Linden (2021), Complicating
the Quantity-Quality Transition (Final draft, accepted for publication
30 September 2021,
Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory). Critique,
49:3-4, 177-190
Joost Kircz (2022) Friedrich
Engels' importance for contemporary materialist epistemology
Marxism & Sciences, volume
1, issue 1, pp.37-67. https://marxismandsciences.org/
Joost Kircz (2023) Time
= Money, A study to use Ilyenkov's notion of the Ideal in the
quest for change and time in physics.
Marxism & Sciences.
vol.2.issue 1, p. pp. 1-52
Joost Kircz (2023) Talk @ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) April 17, 2023: Historical materialism & Science Or The finiteness of our scientific models/theories. Power Point Version and PDF version (including notes/references).
Joost Kircz (2023) Socialism in the 21st Century (Soc21): Some
Programmatic Remarks on Its Relation to Science and Technology
Marxisme and Sciences, vol 2 #2 pp 11-119.
Joost Kircz (2023) Talk on Gaza: responsibiity of the academic; Teach-In on Gaza Technical University Delft (TUD-Netherlands) 8 dec 2023
Sascha Freyberg and Joost Kircz (2024). Albert Einstein: Causality. Lecture at the Marxist Workers School 1930 (Private Notes by Karl Korsch), Marxism and Sciences vol.3:1, pp 207-232/
Joost Kircz (2024) Final Draft. From the body to the ideal and back.
Presentation Historical Materialism Confernece Cluj-Napoka August 29th, 2024.
Powerpoint
En Français
Réalité, connaissance, et prévision.
Le présent
essai est basé sur une présentation faite lors de la
Conférence Le troisième âge du capitalisme, sa physionomie
socio-politique à l'orée du XXIe siècle. En mémoire
d'Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), qui s'est tenue les 20-22 mai 2015 à Lausanne,
en Suisse. (Traduction de l'anglais : Robert Lochhead)
German
Engels und die Naturwissenschaften - ein Ausgangspunkt.
In: Theodor Bergmann/ Mario Kessler/ Joost Kircz/ Gert Schäfer (Hrsg.).
Zwischen Utopie und Kritik. Friedrich Engels - ein "Klassiker" nach
100 Jahren. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, pp. 259-272.
Many more journalistic contributions in various outlets.
This section is for Work in Progress, in the hope it will be finished
or published in another form (or both).
Partly in connection with the project: Research on the relation between Marxism
and Science
of the Foundation: Socialist Research Collective; for a socialism of the 21st
century. www.soc21.nl
In progress
Mathematics
and dialectics
A working paper on Matematics, Marx, Engels and the diamat interpreters. Draft
april 2020
Draft symposium Izmir sept 2023. On Holism