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This paper deals with “May”, an 1836 poetic masterpiece by the Czech Romantic poet, Karel Hynek Macha (1810–1836). First, it briefly recounts the findings of Jiři Levy (1950) and Stanislav Rubaš (2012) concerned ...

By means of historiographical and critical analysis, the present article aims to map out “the traces” of sociological concepts in the works of Jiři Levy in comparison to the works of A. Popovič and F. Miko. The aim...

In the Sub-Saharan francophone literature, promotion of the African traditional cultures is followed by its tragical disappearance which represents the main dynamic of the narrative. This fact is stressed by total absenc...

The use of values in the coaching process by Czech basketball coaches is examined in light of the development of intrinsic, added and instrumental values in sport through history. Hard work and respect were seen to be do...

This article contains the theme of catholic theological perspectives on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations since Vatican II until today. The article presents some negative opinions on Islam and some positive appreciati...

The cross-cultural application of happiness studies has led to many interesting results over the last few decades. The merits of this field of research are widely recognized, resulting for instance in government strategi...

In this essay, Mikel Dufrenne seeks to provide an overall appreciation of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In particular, he selects the aspects with which he himself works, such as the primacy of perception, cor...

Regionally aimed research into musical-and-aesthetical thinking accounts for only a small part of explored scientific issues that require broader philosophical, art-theoretical as well as linguistic erudition. Summarizin...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the C...

This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American...

The article deals with the 1938 treatise History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), abbreviated AUCP(b) – an official treatise from the Stalin era of the USSR which was published on a mass scale. The author...

The French Revolution was central to the emergence of modern society, and by extension, modern social science. However, not only French scientists contributed to the invention of sociology, nor for that matter did scienc...

The essay takes off from current controversies about Communism, and on the relative weight of its cultural, political and economic components. The discussion then moves, in light of recent historical scholarship, to prob...

A primary aim of many expeditions is to facilitate personal development of young people and while there is much anecdotal evidence to support this aim, there is limited empirical work of varied quality that explores the ...

In their philosophical works Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey criticize philosophical conceptions that consider the stability of the outer world to be a basic characteristic of reality and conceive of change only as...

This article focuses on the question of pious legacy in the testaments of the members of the Olomouc bourgeoisie. The main research problem of the thesis is the question whether the events of the observed period were ref...

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Recenze: Michel Houellebecq: Podvolení. Praha: Odeon, 2015, 248 s.

Miloš Mendel: Džihád. Islámské koncepty šíření víry. Brno: Atlantis, 2010, 356 stran (druhé rozšířené a přepracované vydání).

For a long time the scope of “poetry” has been wrongly reduced to its purely emotional contents. Pierre Reverdy in his well-known conference “This emotion called poetry” draws on some of his already ancient views...

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