The German-Austrian social theorist and philosopher Leo Kofler (1907-1995) stands for an 'unmutilated, living Marxism' (Oskar Negt). Throughout his life he dealt with issues of history and the present, the critique of philosophy and ideology, anthropology and aesthetics. In this volume, author and Kofler biographer Christoph Jünke approaches the enduring relevance of the socialist humanist, clarifying the contours of his philosophy of praxis and spanning from socialist classicism to postmodernism. Leo Kofler was an outstanding representative of postwar German Marxism. Born in Austro-Hungarian East Galicia, raised in interwar 'Red Vienna' and interned in neutral Switzerland during fascism and war, he was appointed to the University of Halle in 1947 and must.