Publikace podle recenzenta přináší zajímavý pohled na slovenský autonomistický proud v meziválečném Československu z dosud nezpracovaného úhlu, a to optikou amerických a kanadských Slováků. Nejedná se pouze o přehledovou práci o slovenském autonomistickém hnutí, nýbrž také o hlubokou sondu do politického, náboženského a kulturního prostředí severoamerických krajanů, jež mělo významný vliv na aktivitu slovenského politického hnutí v první Československé republice. Autor dokumentuje jak vztahy a kontakty politiků na Slovensku s krajanskou obcí v Severní Americe, tak proměny jejích názorů na státoprávní uspořádání Československa a postavení Slováků v něm, které dospěly přes počáteční dílčí rozpory k jednoznačnému autonomistickému stanovisku., This publication, whose title translates as ‘The American Slovaks’ contribution to the movement for an autonomous Slovakia, 1918-38’, provides, according to the reviewer, an interesting view of a trend in inter-war Czechoslovakia seen from the hitherto ignored angle of the Slovaks living in the USA and Canada. This is not only a general survey of the movement for Slovak autonomy; it is also an in-depth examination of the political, religious, and cultural milieux of Slovaks living in North America, which had an important influence on the Slovak political movement in the first Czechoslovak Republic. The author documents the relations between politicians in Slovakia and the Slovak communities in North America, and also discusses the changes in their views on the constitutional arrangement of Czechoslovakia and the Slovaks’ status within it, which led, despite initial conflicts, to a clear autonomist stance., [autor recenze] Marek Šmíd., and Obsahuje bibliografii
This paper explores the notion of “power” prevalent in Václav Havel’s understanding of the post-totalitarian regime. With this notion of power, which is “seeping” in nature, rather than rooted solely in an individual agent’s actions, the role of the individual in the formation of the political “we” becomes a central issue. The starting point is Havel’s well-known example of “the greengrocer,” that illustrate how Havel pictures the way out of the post-totalitarian regime as one in which individuals move from living a lie to living in truth. I show how Havel’s talk about truth and authenticity, and his emphasis on a life in truth (which may appear judgemental, naive and cliché-like) is best understood. The wrong way to understand this is simply to say that people who merely obeyed that government, as the greengrocer did, are to be held accountable because they did not put up a fight against their oppressor. Such an understanding goes wrong because it fails to take into account the complexity of the relationship between power and language. In contrast to this, I argue that the central issue here is not that particular agents are to be held responsible for countersigning messages that they think are false. More precisely, I argue that the moral difficulty here is that the greengrocer’s deeds, which appear as countersignatures of the regime, are possible because the messages conveyed are “innocent” on the surface, in a “literal” sense. The moral dimension of the greengrocer’s actions, aiming to shed light on the complex relation between the government and the individual, is revealed as located in a field of tension between inherited sense and new projections. This, in turn, can help us to see the real nature of the transition Havel’s grocer undergoes when he moves from living a lie to living in truth. It is not a matter of negating a false statement or utterance, nor of replacing it with a true one. It is a matter of realising that the responsibility for meaning is, ultimately, ours – and that the way in which he, the grocer, is one of us is something that has to be earned.
This article is focused on the surface assessment of some ground glasses grinded by means different sorts of abrasion dust. It determines amplitude roughness parameters of ground glass samples and related PSD functions. Measurements were done by means of mechanical inductive profilometer Form Talysurf Series 2 - both software and hardware gear for solid surface assessment of shape, waviness and roughness with extraordinary resolution. and Článek je zaměřen na zhodnocení stavu povrchu několika matnic vybroušených různými brusivy stanovením amplitudových parametrů drsnosti a PSD funkcí. Měření probíhala na přístroji Form Talysurf Series 2. Jedná se o indukční mechanický profilometr - hardwarový i softwarový nástroj pro detekci parametrů tvaru, vlnitosti a drsnosti povrchů pevných těles s mimořádnou rozlišovací schopností.