The Character of Czech Scholarship: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword 11
4. Preface 13
5. Literature and Literary Criticism
6. Recent Czech Literary History and Criticism 17
7. Humanistic and Democratic Thought in Czech Literature 29
8. Two Paradoxes of Czech Literary Evolution 39
9. One Hundred and Twenty Years of Slovak Literary Language 44
10. Czech Opinion of America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 51
11. The Real Legacy of Karel Čapek 60
12. Čapek and Communism 68
13. The Art of Jan Čep 76
14. Traditions of Czech Literature and the Writer in Exile 83
15. Linguistics
16. The Czech Contribution to Modern Linguistics 93
17. Moravian Codification of the First Slavic Literary Language 105
18. The Influence of John of Neumarkt 112
19. Music and Fine Arts
20. Music in Czechoslovakia 119
21. The Influence of 18th Century Czech Composers on the Development of Classical Music 134
22. Czechoslovak Painting from its Beginning until the Second World War 141
23. Illuminator Egregius Temporibus Wenceslai IV in Regno Bohemiae Florens 156
24. Frank Kupka (1871-1957) 167
25. The Contribution of the Sculpture of Czechoslovakia to the World of Art 175
26. History
27. The First Contact of Czechs with Western Civilization: The Mission of St. Amand in the 7th Century 183
28. Dynamics of the Spatial Concept of Czechoslovakia : Persistence of Regional Consciousness and Unity over the Span of Thirteen Centuries 202
29. The Religion of Hussite Tabor 210
30. George of Podĕbrady's Plan for an International Peace League 224
31. The Development of Czechoslovak Historical Writing 245
32. Jaroslav Goll and his Historical School 258
33. The Success of Professor Dvorník's Research in the Vindication of the Patriarch Photius 262
34. Political Science and Philosophy
35. Background of Czechoslovak Democracy 267
36. Political Science in Czechoslovakia 277
37. Masaryk and Plato in the 20th Century 283
38. Sociology
39. The Character of Czech Scholarship: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge 297
40. The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Development of the Czechoslovak Society 307
41. The Development of Sociology in Czechoslovakia before World War II 313
42. Anticipated Changes in Czechoslovakia 319
43. Economics
44. Teleological Construction of Economics: Professor Karel Engliš' Contribution to Economic Thought 329
45. Tomáš Bat'a - Pioneer of Self-Government in Industry 342
46. Czechoslovak Grain Monopoly System 350
47. Economic and Social Structure of Czechoslovak Society between the Two Wars 359
48. Problems of Measuring Industrial Output in Czechoslovakia 373
49. Law
50. The Origins and Development of the Study of History of Law in the Territory of Czechoslovakia (1775-1939) 381
51. The Czechoslovak Constitutions of 1920, 1948, and 1960 396
52. The Brno School of Jurisprudence 405
53. Election Laws and Democratic Government 414
54. Some Criminological and Socio-Political Aspects of Czechoslovak Pre-Communist and Communist Legislation on Abortion 425
55. Science and Technology
56. The Purkinje Effect in the Evolution of Scientific Thought 449
57. Jindřich Matiegka and the Anthropometric Approach to the Study of Body Composition 458
58. The Czechoslovak Contribution to the Change in Concept of Circulation of the Blood 462
59. Prokop Waldfogel of Prague and the 15th Century Printers of the Kingdom of Bohemia 471
60. Czechoslovak Engineering until the Second World War 477
61. Five Centuries of Czech Geography, Exploration, and Cartography Comments on Major Trends and Present Status 482
62. Czechs and Slovaks Abroad
63. The Present Day Significance of John A. Comenius 493
64. Augustine Heřman of Bohemia Manor 500
65. Aleš Hrdlička, Pioneer American Physical Anthropologist 505
66. The Czechs in Texas 510
67. Czechs and Slovaks in Latin America 516
68. Trends in Czech and Slovak Economic Enterprise in the New World 523
69. Czech and Slovak Press Outside Czechoslovakia 528
70. Early Czech Journalism in the United States 546
71. Bibliography
72. Czechoslovakia and its Arts and Sciences: A Selective Bibliography in the Western European Languages 555
73. Contributors to this Volume 635
74. Index 653