Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question : : Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century / / edited by Jan Svoboda and Aleš Prázný.
This book presents T. G. Masaryk’s efforts to shape the identity of a small nation in late the 19th and early 20th century. It features contributions from leading Czech scholars who analyse Masaryk’s efforts 120 years later. Masaryk is considered the most important figure in modern Czech history. Dr...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 381 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023. ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
381. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction / Jan Svoboda and Aleš Prázný
- part 1
- The Historical Context of Masaryk’s Czech Question
- 1 Understanding the Debate around the ‘Czech Question’ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Miroslav Hroch
- 2 Modern Czech State-Formation / Robert Kvaček
- 3 The Czech Question in Its Time / Miloš Havelka
- part 2
- Ethics as the Heart of Philosophy
- 4 Modernism and Transcendence from the Perspective of Masaryk’s Realism / Jan Svoboda
- 5 Masaryk’s Ethics / Wendy Drozenová
- 6 T. G. Masaryk’s Thoughts on Ján Kollár’s Idea of Humanity / Vasil Gluchman
- part 3
- The Pro-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
- 7 The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism / Vlastimil Zátka
- 8 The Czech Question and the Principle of Federalism / Milan Znoj
- 9 Masaryk’s Czech Question and the Idea of the Czech State / Miloslav Bednář
- 10 The Czech Question as the Task of a Humanist Education / Aleš Prázný
- part 4
- The Anti-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
- 11 Masaryk’s Philosophy of Czech History from the Perspective of Popper’s Critigue of Historicism / Otakar A. Funda
- 12 Criticism of the Czech Question / Martin Šimsa
- 13 The Anti-political Nation in Bohemia and Moravia / Václav Bělohradský
- part 5
- The Word of a Politician in Exile
- 14 Humanism as the Motivation of Politics or Masaryk’s Czech Question Today / Karel Hrubý
- part 6
- The Word of a Pastor
- 15 T. G. Masaryk and Our Times / Jakub S. Trojan
- Epilogue of Chairman of the Sekyra Foundation The Return of the Czech Question / Luděk Sekyra
- Index.