"Religious affiliation: Dissident.” Josef Doppler, a political scholar on the margins of academia?

• Authors: Florian Ruttner
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to offer insights into the relationship of a political scholar towards established academia, based on the variegated life of Josef Doppler, a Bratislava-born left-wing intellectual. At first, in a short theoretical introduction, the notion of the political scholar, coined by Franz Neumann, and its difficult relationship towards academia is elucidated. Then, a short sketch of Doppler’s life covers its most important stages: his communist activities in Prague, Frankfurt, where he was in contact with Max Horkheimer, his second stay in the Czechoslovak Republic, finally his exile in Britain and his military service. Subsequently, the paper examines how and to what extent the notion of the political scholar is relevant for each of Doppler’s different concrete situations, and discusses the strategies how Doppler tried to cope with the problems connected to them.

Keywords

EN

academia; critical theory; Czechoslovak exile in Britain; antifascism; dissident communists

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 55-75
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Florian Ruttner

• Masarykův ústav a archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic