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Estetické studie Gustava Adolfa Lindnera

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The article begins with a short biography of the important Czech philosopher, pedagogue and psychologist G. A. Lindner (1828–1887). Lindner’s work on the relation of aesthetics and the theory of theatre is then analysed. His views on aesthetics took their rise from the standpoint of J. F. Herbart, and, in agreement with him, Lindner prioritised aesthetics over ethics and rejected any kind of aesthetical normativism. He placed emphasis on the creative freedom of the artist, even as far as mimesis is concerned. Friedrich Schiller, with his theory of art as play, was his model. In conclusion the article takes up the question of Lindner’s views on the educational function of drama and his own creative work in theatre.
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Kalivodův zápas o marxismus bez pověr a iluzí

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The study is devoted to the philosophical bequest of the Czech philo¬sopher Robert Kalivoda (1923–1089). Author fist evaluates his contribu¬tion to understanding a key period of Czech history, the Hussite move¬ment. By analysing economic and ideological conditions in the 14th and 15th centuries Kalivoda shows, that the Hussite movement was the first European early bourgeois revolution, bringing about fundamental changes in the structure of feudal society by paralysing the economic and philosophic potential of the Church as a fundamental component of the social order. Philosophically the movement created, out of elements of mediaeval philosophic realism and of the views of various heretical groups, an ideology of emancipation, anticipating ideas of later revolu¬tionary movements. The second part of the study develops Kalivoda’s conception of the aesthetic function, starting from the conceptions of Jan Mukařovský, and thinks through its consequences for the humanisation of humans and society. Subsequently, the study analyses Kalivoda’s view of the so-called anthropological constant as the deepest layer of human existence and of its makeup. Kalivoda starts from Marx’s conception of a dialectical relation between hunger and sex and from their influence on the functioning of society. The author takes issue with Sigmund Freud’s conception according to which the sublimation of sexual instinct into the sphere of the “Higher I” (“Über-ich”) has solely an aggressive and repressive character and shows, that it involves non-aggressive sublimation as well, which – especially in the form of revolutionary activities – has a positive influence on social development.
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The poet Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836) was intensively occupied, from his university days, with Czech history, and he chose themes from Czech history in his poetical and prose works. His view of history was partly formed by his reading of the older historical sources (Hájek’s Czech Chronicles), and partly by his reading of commonly available handbooks interpreting history in the spirit of Catholic-dynasticism. A basic shift in Mácha’s conception of Czech history occurred in mid-1833 when the poet became acquainted with the almanach Mephistopheles, which was published in Leipzig by the German-language journalist and author of historical novels with Czech themes, the Prague-born Karl Herloszsohn Herlo (1802-1849). Herlo in the almanach challenged Czechs to stop believing the interpretation of history which was presented to them by official Austrian historiography, and to start to take seriously their own heroes, especially figures of Hussitism and the Czech Reformation. Mácha’s scholars have already shown the influence of Herloszsohn’s almanach on Mácha’s poetical work. The present study investigates the influence of this source on Mácha’s prose work, that is on his unfinished novel The Executioner (Kat), especially on the only part that was published in Mácha’s lifetime entitled Křivoklad. In the concluding part of the study the relation of Mácha’s worldview to Platonism is characterised.
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