Autor se zastavuje u archetypálního půdorysu „komedie“, který si Jiří Suk vypůjčil od literárního teoretika Northropa Fryeho jako výkladový rámec své knihy, a zamýšlí se nad tím, nakolik se dá použít i pro porozumění Havlovým dramatizací absurdity a absurdní povahy politiky. Podle jeho soudu je lépe vystihuje žánr grotesky, spočívající na napětí mezi nesmiřitelnými protiklady a paradoxy. Právě jejich existenci a působení v životě a činnosti Václava Havla ve sledovaném období dokázal Jíří Suk velice plasticky ukázat. Z jeho knihy lze usuzovat, že Havel nevěřil na historický happy end, dějiny pro něj byly naopak otevřeným, neukončeným a nenaplánovatelným děním. Tento způsob intelektuálního vztahování ke světu zůstal podle autora Havlovi vlastní i v prezidentské roli po změně režimu v listopadu 1989. Sloužil mu k distanci od stávající reality i k ironické distanci od sebe sama a tematizován byl například v antinomiích morálky a politiky nebo občanské společnosti a stranické demokracie. Patří k přednostem Sukovy práce, jak účelně významově strukturuje bohatý pramenný materiál s použitím vlastních metahistorických pojmů i převzatých metafor typu „obnovení pořádku“ nebo „šedá zóna“. Suk ukazuje Havla přesvědčivě jako centrální osobnost Charty 77 a politického převratu, jeho výklady jsou vysoce poučené a představují dosud nejhlubší vhled do dané problematiky., The author focuses on the archetypal plan of ‘comedy’ which Jiří Suk has borrowed from the literary theorist Northrop Frye as the interpretational framework for his book about Václav Havel. Moreover, the author questions the extent to which it can properly be used to understand Havel’s dramatizations of absurdity and the absurd nature of politics. In the author’s judgement, these would have been better classified under the genre of the grotesque, which consists in the tension between irreconcilable opposites and paradoxes. It is their existence and operation in Havel’s life and work in the period covered by the book, which Suk has so vividly demonstrated. From this book, one can reasonably conclude that Havel did not believe in a historical happy ending; indeed, history for him comprised open-ended and unplanned events. This way of intellectually relating to the world remained, according to the author, true of Havel also in his role as President after the Changes beginning in November 1989. It helped him to maintain his distance from reality at that time, and also to maintain ironic distance from himself; it is thematized, for example, in the antinomies of morals and politics or civil society and the multi-party system. Among the strong points of Suk’s work is how he has structured the wide range of primary sources according to their meaning and for his own purposes, by using his own meta-historical terms and also adopting metaphors such as the ‘restoration of order’ or the ‘grey zone’. Suk persuasively shows Havel as the central figure of Charter 77 and the Changes. His interpretations are well informed, and constitute the deepest probe into the topic so far., [autor recenze] Miloš Havelka., Obsahuje bibliografii, and Tři hlasy k jedné knize
During the last 12 years, 23 mollusc species were recorded in the Czech Republic for the first time. With the exception of several introduced and invasive species, some of these molluscs are native, rare and even endangered, including Pagodulina pagodula. This rare woodland snail of Alpine origin was found in spring 2012 in the Mutenská obora Nature Reserve, which includes the forested slopes above the Moravská Dyje River in South Moravia. This is another occurrence of the species outside its Alpine range, in addition to one site in Poland, two in Slovakia, and a few sites in Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula. The species was also recorded in the Czech Republic in several interglacial sediments of the Pleistocene and also in one profile of Holocene origin (Atlantic period), not far away from the recent site. and Adam Lacina, Michal Horsák.
Ernst Mach was already an internationally recognised experimental physicist, when he, after professorships for Mathematics and Physics in Graz and Experimental Physics in Prague, took over the chair for "Philosophy, particularly for the History and Theory of the Inductive Sciences", at the University of Vienna in 1895. This turn from natural sciences to philosophy was really an exception in the academic field. Although he was not a specialist in philosophy his ideas exhibited a remarkable influence. Here is the first part of the author's text, the second, closing part (Mach and Philosophy) will be published in the next issue of this Journal., Friedrich Stadler ; z angličtiny a němčiny přeložil M. Černohorský., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The Academy has interacted with the public in every regional seat and many other centres in the Czech Republic during its 14th Science and Technology Week, November 1-15. As one of the largest science communication efforts in the country, it presented the latest scientific achievements and results of current research. The response by Czech participants was lively and enthusiastic. and Luděk Svoboda.