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12. Příspěvek k „paměti národa”

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Hála, Vlastimil
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Czech
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Sborník o situaci Židů a antisemitismu v Československu v době od podepsání Mnichovské dohody koncem září 1938 do německé okupace českých zemí v březnu 1939 je podle recenzenta celkově velmi kritický k tehdejšímu režimu a jeho elitám, jimž vyčítá zavádění restrikcí vůči židovskému obyvatelstvu a jeho ostrakizaci. Ideologické zdroje vidí autoři nejčastěji v utilitárním českém nacionalismu a militantním konzervativním katolicismu a druhou republiku vnímají v kontinuitě s drastickými opatřeními proti Židům po zřízení Protektorátu Čechy a Morava. and The volume under review, concerning the situation of the Jews and antisemitism in Czechoslovakia in the period from the signing of the Munich Agreement in late September 1938 to the German occupation of the Bohemian Lands in mid-March 1939, is, according to the reviewer, on the whole highly critical of the Second Republic régime and its élite, which the papers reproach for having introduced restrictions on the Jews of the country and ostracizing them. The authors see the sources of the ideology mostly in utilitarian Czech nationalism and militant conservative Roman Catholicism, and they see the Second Republic in continuity with the drastic measures against the Jews after the setting up of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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13. Rakouská identita v proměnách mýtu

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Hála, Vlastimil
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article and TEXT
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Czech
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Stachel, Peter: Mythos Heldenplatz. Wien, Pichler Verlag 2002, 119 stran. Autor se v knize zabývá symbolickým významem vídeňského Náměstí hrdinů v různých kontextech, zejména ve složitém utváření rakouské identity. Sleduje tak nejen historické události a kolektivní symbolické akty spjaté s tímto náměstím, ale i jeho obraz v umělecké tvorbě a samotný historický vývoj jeho architektonických komponent. Recenzent oceňuje také Stachelovu „rakouskou sebeironii“ a problematizaci habsburského mýtu. and Stachel, Peter. Mythos Heldenplatz. Vienna: Pichler Verlag, 2002, 119 pp. The book under review considers the symbolic meaning of the Heldenplatz, Vienna, in its various contexts, particularly in the complicated formation of Austrian identity. He traces not only historical events and collective symbolic acts connected with this square, but also its depiction in art and the historical development of its architecture. The reviewer also praises Stachel’s “Austrian self-irony” and problematization of the Habsburg myth.
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14. Tři pohledy na první světovou válku

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Hála, Vlastimil
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article, model:article, and TEXT
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Czech
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Each of the philosophers whom the author focuses on in this article addressed not only the question of the meaning of the First World War, but also of war in general as a certain kind of phenomenon. Scheler and Patočka both share a generally phenomenological starting point — and in particular they share an orientation that treats the war experience as one of transcendence (sacrifice, being “shaken”) of the everyday and its institutional bonds. In this respect, however, the two philosophers reflect wartime experience in an almost contradictory way: Scheler adores the engagement of war in the interest of nationalistically-understood goals, Patočka exalts the attitude of the „shaken“, consisting in „self-possession“ and in refusing „the appeals to mobilise“. Transcendence has, then, an opposite meaning in the two thinkers. Despite the generally problematic (especially nationalistically extreme) character of Scheler’s views, even here we find a stimulating reference to the nontransparency of a distinction between just and unjust wars and of its identification with aggressive and defensive wars. Patočka’s thought about being “shaken” does not, however, concern only wartime experience, but also plays an important role in a conception of the „spiritual man“, which had a significant resonance in the Czech intellectual milieu. Masaryk, against the background of the events of the First World War in their wider context of „world revolution“, formulated his own conception of the meaning of Czech history, consisting in the struggle between theocracy and democracy. This interpretation drew a critical reaction from J. Patočka. Masaryk was the only one of the philosophers treated here who, in his thoughts about war, reflected on the meaning of the First World War for political organisation and cooperation among nations in general. In his exaltation of the significance of democracy as the guarantee of the realisation of human rights, Masaryk can be seen as a philosopher who is close to the modern conception of moral and political philosophy (J. Rawls, M. Walzer, V. Hösle).
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