Recalling Masaryk's The Czech Question: Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century (Value Inquiry Book / Central European Value Studies, 381)

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Title Page
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 The Historical Context of Masaryk’s Czech Question
	Chapter 1 Understanding the Debate around the ‘Czech Question’ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2 Modern Czech State-Formation
	Chapter 3 The Czech Question in Its Time
		Bibliography
Part 2 Ethics as the Heart of Philosophy
	Chapter 4 Modernism and Transcendence from the Perspective of Masaryk’s Realism
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5 Masaryk’s Ethics
		1 Ethics as the Heart of Masaryk’s Philosophy
		2 Masaryk’s University Lectures
		3 Masaryk’s Ideals of Humanity
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6 T. G. Masaryk’s Thoughts on Ján Kollár’s Idea of Humanity
		1 Introduction
		2 Masaryk on Ján Kollár in the Czech Question
		3 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part 3 The Pro-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
	Chapter 7 The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8 The Czech Question and the Principle of Federalism
		1 Palacký as a Safe Guideline cum grano salis
		2 Federation as an Internal Precondition for National Self-Rule (the Dichotomy of the Internal and External)
		3 Federation as a Democratic Demand Made by a Small Nation (the Dichotomy of Small and Large)
		4 The Principle of a Federation within a Federation in New Geopolitical Constellations
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9 Masaryk’s Czech Question and the Idea of the Czech State
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10 The Czech Question as the Task of a Humanist Education
		1 Education as a Political Matter
		2 The Reciprocity of Transcendence and the Everyday as the Cornerstone of Humanity
		Bibliography
Part 4 The Anti-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
	Chapter 11 Masaryk’s Philosophy of Czech History from the Perspective of Popper’s Critique of Historicism
		1 The Intentional Continuity in Masaryk’s Meaning of Czech History
		2 Patočka’s Criticism of Masaryk’s Philosophy of the Meaning of Czech History
		3 Popper’s Criticism of Historicism and Messianism
		4 Allow Me to Say Something on My Own Behalf
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12 Criticism of the Czech Question
		1 Introduction
		2 Liberal Criticism
		3 National-Conservative Criticism
		4 Religious and Christian Criticism
		5 Marxist Criticism
		6 Criticism of Nationalism
		7 Criticism of Critics and the Experience of History
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13 The Anti-political Nation in Bohemia and Moravia
		Bibliography
Part 5 The Word of a Politician in Exile
	Chapter 14 Humanism as the Motivation of Politics or Masaryk’s Czech Question Today
		1 The Crisis of Politics
		2 Society on the Rise
		3 Humanism as a Cornerstone
		4 Critical Acceptance
		5 The Revival of Society and National Independence
		6 Humanism in Masaryk’s Political Platform
		7 Evil against Humanity
		8 In Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part 6 The Word of a Pastor
	Chapter 15 T. G. Masaryk and Our Times
		1 TGM and My Present Day
		2 TGM and the Problems of Our Society
		Bibliography
Epilogue: the Return of the Czech Question
Index