The Spectres of Selfhood : the Philosophy of Individualism in the Interwar Czechoslovakia   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2510629B

  Author(s)

  Chavalka, Jakub

  City

  Prague 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788070076774 

  Date of Publication

  2021 

  Publisher

  Czech Academy of Sciences  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  227 

  Series

  Filosoficky casopis : special issues 2021.1

  Subject

  Philosophy / Psychology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Chavalka, Jakub

  Publisher

  Czech Academy of Sciences  

• Description

  Individualism as a concept did not have a very good reputation in the inter­war Czechoslovakia. Yet, already Masaryk and later on Peroutka made a significant appeal to the cornerstone of democracy – personality. The aim of the publication is to show how the thinkers with the biggest cultural and spiritual influence of the time dealt with the problem of creating a strong individuality, and what troubles they had to face. None of them (perhaps with the exception of Ladislav Klíma) declared individualism as the centre of their philosophical thinking. However, a closer look at their philosophy points to interconnectedness of the “struggle for individuality” with the struggle of the newly created Republic for its self-determination. After all, some of the thinkers understood nation or state as autonomous individual, albeit collective. The intentions of the authors of this collection of texts is to help better understand how the problem of individuality formed our own history.