Revolutions for the Future: May ’68 and Prague Spring

0535792 - FLÚ 2021 RIV FR eng M - Monography Chapter
Feinberg, Joseph Grim
1989: The Triumph of Truth and the Burial of Philosophy.
Revolutions for the Future: May ’68 and Prague Spring. Lyon: Suture Press, 2020 - (Berankova, J.; Hauser, M.; Nesbitt, N.), s. 300-317. ISBN 978-2-9569056-1-5
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/11
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : 1989 * Soviet-type society * Communism * post-Communism * revolution * civil society * intellectual history
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This article investigates the development of critical thought in Czechoslovakia before and after the revolution of 1989, attempting to understand why the generation of radical critics from before 1989 became relatively docile and willing to submit quietly to authority after the revolution. The article places special emphasis on the paradoxical conceptualization of politics as something both irredeemable and inexpendable, both dirty and sacred. Through this analysis, the author argues that critical philosophy was gradually substituted over this period with a notion of immutable “truth” that was supposed to accepted and defended against critics.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0313727