Contents -- Prologue to Critical Marxism in Mexico -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition in German -- Preface to the Spanish-Language Edition -- Introduction: From Eurocentric to Peripheral Marxism -- Part 1 Historical and Theoretical Context -- Chapter 1 The Life and Work of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez -- Beginning of the Biography -- The Spanish Civil War -- The First Period in Mexico, Exile -- The 'New Theoretical and Practical Posture' -- Chapter 2 The Life and Work of Bolívar Echeverría -- The Period in West Germany and West Berlin -- From the Divided City to the Mexican Capital -- Collaboration on the Journal Cuadernos Políticos -- Back to Philosophy -- Chapter 3 The 'State of Art' -- a On Social Philosophy in Latin America -- b On Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría -- Part 2 Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Praxis and Knowledge -- Chapter 4 The Concept of Praxis -- a The Term 'Praxis' in Various European Languages -- b The Terms 'Praxis' and 'Práctica' and the Problem of Their Translation -- c General Introduction to the Concept -- Chapter 5 Everyday Consciousness of Praxis -- a The Critique of the Everyday Consciousness of Praxis, or, What Is a Theoretical Knowledge of Praxis Good For? -- b Revolutionary Praxis and Everyday Consciousness -- Practical Politicism and Practical Apoliticism -- c Artistic Praxis and Everyday Consciousness -- d Concluding the Critique of Everyday Consciousness -- Chapter 6 The Relationship between Philosophy and Praxis in History -- a Antiquity -- b The Philosophy of Praxis -- Chapter 7 The Theses on Feuerbach -- a The Position of the Theses on Feuerbach in Marx's Work -- b Interpretation of the Theses on Feuerbach -- Praxis as the Basis for Knowledge (Thesis I) -- Praxis as a Criterion of Truth (Thesis II).

Revolutionary Praxis as the Unity of the Transformation in Human Beings and in Circumstances (Thesis III) -- From the Interpretation of the World to its Transformation (Thesis XI) -- Epilogue to the Theses on Feuerbach -- Chapter 8 Critique of Some Marxist Conceptions of Knowledge -- a Critique of Certain Conceptions of Marxism in General -- b Critique of Certain Marxist Conceptions of Knowledge -- Knowledge as the Direct Result of World-Transformative Praxis -- Knowledge as Something Achieved Exclusively in Theory -- Chapter 9 Once Again on the Problem of Knowledge and Praxis -- a Materialism and Idealism -- b Political and Productive Praxis -- Chapter 10 The Philosophy of Praxis: Two Versions -- Part 3 Bolívar Echeverría: Use-Value and Ethos -- Chapter 11 Praxis and Use-Value -- a Theory of Use-Value and Critique of the Abstract Concept of Praxis -- b Differences vis-à-vis the Concept of Praxis in Sánchez Vázquez -- c Historical Limitations of the Marxian Concept of Use-Value -- d The Aristotelian Concept of Use-Value as Interpreted by Marx -- e Marx as the Founder of the Critical Concept of Use-Value -- f The Marxian Concept of Natural Form and the Theory of Ethos -- g The Critique of Political Economy as a Critique of Modernity -- Chapter 12 Concretisation of the Concept of Praxis -- a Reproduction and Communication -- b Use-Value and Signs -- c Marx's Theory of Tools -- d Concept of Concrete Universalism -- Chapter 13 Modernity and Capitalism -- a The Critique of Actually-Existing Modernity and the Critique of Actually-Existing Postmodern Thought -- b The Term 'Actually-Existing Modernity' -- c Actually-Existing Modernities as Basis for a Non-Capitalist Moderity -- Chapter 14 The Concept of Historical Ethos -- a On the Term Ethos -- Translation Problems -- b Determination of the Concept of 'Historical Ethos' -- c Concept of Modernity.

d The Terms 'Realist', 'Romantic', 'Classic', and 'Baroque Ethos' -- e The Concept of the Four Ethe of Capitalist Modernity as a Contribution to a Materialist History of Culture -- f The Theoretical Positioning and Explosive Force of the Concept of Ethos -- Form of Civilisation Versus Mode of Production ( for Martin Heidegger) -- The Finite of the Dominant Modernity and of All Capitalist Modernities ( for Karl Marx) -- Christianity and Capitalism ( for Max Weber) -- Excursus: Marx on 'Political Economy and Christianity' -- Puritanism and Realism -- Chapter 15 The Four Ethe of Capitalist Modernity -- a The Realist Ethos -- b The Romantic Ethos -- c The Classic Ethos -- d The Baroque Ethos -- e Non-existence of the Historical Ethe in Pure Form -- f Textual Variations of the Concept of Ethos -- Chapter 16 Ethos and Ideology -- a Limitations of the Concept of Ethos -- b Contribution to the Reconstruction of the Concept of Ideology in the Critique of Political Economy -- 1859 Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy -- The Text: 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret' -- The Fetishism of the Commodity -- The Historical Dimension of the Fetishism of the Commodity, or Knowledge as a Political-practical Process -- On the Relation between 'Necessity' and 'Interest' in the Formation or Perpetuation of Ideologies -- Capital as a Critique of Fetishisms -- c The Concept of Ethos as a Toned Down Critique of Ideology -- d An Example of the Limitations of the Concept of Ethos -- Chapter 17 Utopia: A Non-Capitalist Society of Commodity Producers -- Part 4 On the Relationship between Praxis and Ethos -- Chapter 18 Affirmation or Critique of Praxis? -- Chapter 19 The Conceptual Determination of Culture and Nature -- Chapter 20 The Philosophical Critique of Eurocentrism -- a On the Problem of Focusing on European Authors.

b Critical Concept of Praxis Versus Abstract Universalism, Namely Eurocentrism -- Bibliographical Appendix -- A Bibliography of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez -- B Bibliography of Bolívar Echeverría -- C Selected Bibliography on Marxist Philosophy in Latin America -- D Sources for the Bibliographies -- References -- Index of Titles -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Names.