Masarykův přínos ke znalosti národní historie jako konstitutivní hodnoty pro rozvoj demokracie

• Authors: Marie L. Neudorflová

Title variants

EN

Masaryk’s contribution to knowledge of national history as a constituent value for the progress of democracy

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This essay is to some extent a response to the fact that over recent decades there has been a gross misinterpretation of history in favour of undemocratic aspects of history and the present day, and to the detriment of contextual objectivity including democratising and social national history currents. The self-knowledge of nations as one of the conditions for the progress of democracy is generally endangered. In this regard, the situation is similar to that at the end of the 19th century when Masaryk made the case for a more complete perspective on Czech history, in particular on the periods neglected for political reasons yet important in terms of national self-development, in which efforts at breaking out of destructive oppression and the positive development of the majority and the whole was a significant aspect of Czech history, an aspect fundamentally highly democratising. Since Masaryk’s method of looking at history, looking at the complex democratising initiative from below in an unfavourable political context has lost none of its relevance or power in its lessons today, this essay focuses in particular on these relevant aspects of Masaryk’s acts.

Keywords

EN

history; 19th and 20th centuries; Austria-Hungary; Czechoslovakia; Tomáš G Masaryk; philosophy; dispute over the meaning of Czech history

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-25
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marie L. Neudorflová

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic