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
Friedrich Stadler ; z němčiny přeložil M. Černohorský., Obsahuje seznam literatury, and První část tohoto článku vyšla v předchozím 3. čísle tohoto časopisu.
This study describes the origin and development of the friendship between the literary scholar Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975) and the writer Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942). Mukařovský’s interpretations of Vančura’s literary works are the main focus of the study. Both Mukařovský’s published works and texts that were never published (e.g. university lectures) are analysed. On the basis of archival research, the author of the study proves that Mukařovský analysed Vančura’s work much earlier than he published his first-ever work on Vančura in 1934. In the course of the 1940s to 1960s, Mukařovský published many texts on Vančura in which he remembered Vančura as a friend, poet, Communist and anti-fascist activist.
Biografii jednoho z nejvýznačnějších českých básníků dvacátého století Vladimíra Holana (1905-1980) z pera francouzského bohemisty překladatele, profesora pařížské Sorbonny Xaviera Galmiche, vydanou v původním znění pod názvem Vladimír Holan, le bibliothécaire de Dieu: Prague 1905-1980 (Paris, Institut d’études slaves 2009), hodnotí recenzent jako inspirativní a zdařilou. Autor se vydal nejen cestou syntetizující analýzy jeho díla a podrobné interpretace některých jeho textů, ale i rekonstrukce kontinuity jeho básnické dráhy v historickém kontextu. Nosný pilíř propojující tyto dvě roviny přitom našel v rozboru žánrových proměn Holanovy tvorby. Jeho společnská role podle něj oscilovala mezi polohami „básníka revolty“ a „básníka na cestě za spásou“. Za interpretačně odvážné, ale podnětné a vyargumentované považuje recenzent Galmichovo hodnocení Holana jako velkého barokního básníka moderní doby, který sice po určitou sdílel komunistické přesvědčení své generace, svým duchovním založením ale tíhl ke katolicitě., The book under review, originally published as Vladimír Holan, le bibliothécaire de Dieu: Prague 1905-1980 (Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2009), is a biography of one of the most notable Czech poets of the twentieth century, Vladimír Holan (1905-1980). The author, Xavier Galmiche, is a French scholar of Czech language and literature, a translator, and a professor at the Sorbonne. The publication, the reviewer argues, is an inspiring success. According to him, the author has set out not only to provide a comprehensive analysis of Holan’s works and an in-depth interpretation of some of his writing, as well as a reconstruction of the continuity of his career as a poet in the historical context. These two levels are supported by an analysis of the changing genres of Holan’s work. His social role, according to the reviewer, oscillated between being a ‘poet of revolt’ and a ‘poet on the road to salvation’. According to the reviewer, Galmiche’s assessment of Holan as a great Baroque poet of modern times, who for a while shared the Communist convictions of his generation but was eventually drawn by his spiritual disposition to Roman Catholicism, is bold but inspiring and well-argued., [autor recenze] Jiří Křesťan., and Obsahuje bibliografii
This paper focuses on the memoirs of František Ježek, politician and member of the Czechoslovak National Democratic Party (after 1935 the National Union). In 1938 Ježek was a member of the Czechoslovak cabinet as the Minister of Public Health. His text is one of the most important unpublished Czechoslovak memoirs dealing with the topic of the Munich Agreement in 1938. This manuscript provides detailed information on the activities of the Czechoslovak government and political parties in the critical year of 1938. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou