Kosík, Kalivoda, Sviták a Pražské jaro 1968

• Authors: Jan Mervart

Title variants

EN

Kosík, Kalivoda, Sviták and the Czechoslovak spring of 1968

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Present study is conceived as a contribution to the development of Czech humanistic Marxism and is devoted to the philosophers Karel Kosík, Robert Kalivoda and Ivan Sviták during the Czechoslovak spring of 1968. The author considers their philosophical positions, their social critique and their vision of a future democratic socialism as well as their distinctive political commitment inseparable from their philosophical development. For all three, those were long term concerns culminating in the political thaw of 1968. The study deals with their successive texts, written intentionally as contributions to a society-wide discussion or even as programmatic proclamations, showing the moments with which they contended at the time and what goals they followed. At the same time it points to quite evident difference between the thought of I. Sviták on the one hand and K. Kosík and R. Kalivoda on the other, while also attempting a more detailed sketch of differences in their views as well as of the agreements not evident at first glance.

Keywords

EN

humanistic Marxism; Czechoslovak spring of 1968; Karel Kosík; Robert Kalivoda; Ivan Sviták

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2, Special No: Hledání ztraceného času
• Pages: 195-209
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan  Mervart

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic