Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be ...understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.
Totalitarianism has been one of the most contested concepts in the intellectual history of postwar political thought.¹ One of the topical areas of this debate concerned the use of the term by Eastern ...and Central European dissidents, which was notable given that the proliferation of the concept east of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s coincided with its dismissal by a considerable number of Western sovietologists and policymakers. In the controversy over the dissident usage of the concept, Martin Malia,² the eminent voice of the supporters of the totalitarian framework, believed that the Eastern and Central European usage of “totalitarianism”
This paper contains various reports, listed bellow:
1. Future of Czech and Polish Literary Bibliography − zpráva o řešení projektu
2. Konference o bratrech Čapcích
3. Z přírůstků bibliografické ...databáze výzkumné infrastruktury česká literární bibliografie (účl av čr) za červen až červenec 2020
Introduction Michal Kopeček; Piotr Wciślik
Thinking Through Transition,
12/2015
Book Chapter
It is not easy for historians to apply their methods to a period that does not yet have a clear end. A historical threshold, usually immediately recognized as such, detaches the “historical” from our ...lives today, creates badly needed distance for the process of historicization and, last but not least, gives an era a name. In our case, it is not the namelessness of the period after 1989, but rather the proliferation of names that bears witness to the unfinished and open nature of the epoch after the fall of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. We do not
