Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question

Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53490-2 (ISBN)

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In the late 19th century, T. G. Masaryk presented his national programme. This vision of modern Czech society rested on the ideals of humanity, thus infusing the national ethos with a universal dimension. The significance of T. G. Masaryk's thought is investigated by current Czech thinkers in this volume.

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. Drawing on the ideas of his ideological predecessors and humanists, he wanted to integrate the Czech nation into the family of advanced world nations in line with international intellectual trends. Masaryk was the first in world history to fulfil the Platonic ideal of a philosopher who founded a state.

Jan Svoboda received his Ph.D. from the Philosophical Faculty at Palacký University Olomouc in 2015 and is currently a research fellow at the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His publications include Masarykův realismus a filosofie pozitivismu (Masaryk's Realism and Philosophy of Positivism) (Prague, 2017) and 'Whitehead’s Interpretation of Plato’s “Receptacle” and the Parallels with the Concept of “Eternal Objects”', in: Nóema: Rivista online di filosofia, (2020). Aleš Prázný received his habilitation from Charles University in Prague in 2016 and has been an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice since 2002. His publications include O smyslu politiky. Politická filosofie Hannah Arendtové (The Meaning of Politics. The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt) (Pardubice, 2014) and 'New Education and Dewey´s Pragmatism', in: Pragmatism Today (2021).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies ; 381
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	623 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	90-04-53490-3 / 9004534903
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53490-2 / 9789004534902
Zustand	Neuware