Ideological Storms. Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation

0510121 - ÚSD 2020 RIV HU eng M - Monography Chapter
Kopeček, Michal
Czech Communist Intellectuals and the 'National Road to Socialism'. Zdeněk Nejedlý and Karel Kosík, 1945-1968.
Ideological Storms. Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation. Budapest: CEU Press, 2019 - (Tismaneanu, V.; Iacob, B.), s. 345-389. ISBN 978-963-386-303-9
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : intellectuals * socialism * communist regime
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

On the example of two important Czech Communist political thinkers and activists – the historian, musicologist, and minister in post-war Czechoslovak governments, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and the philosopher and essayist Karel Kosík – the articles provides basic contours of the dilemma between the „nationally particular” and the “revolutionarily universal,” which all Communist and radical Socialists thinkers of their time faced. The author sets the intellectual and creative development of these two figures into the wider political context from the end of the Second World War to the 1968 Prague Spring.
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