Publication details
Josef Ludvík Fischer o demokracii a svobodě
| Title in English | Josef Ludvík Fischer on Democracy and Freedom |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Sloboda a jej projekcie |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | J. L. Fischer; freedom; democracy |
| Description | In her article, the author presents the attitudes that the left-wing philosopher and sociologist J. L. Fischer (1894–1973) held towards democracy and freedom. Fischer employed the structurally-functional method in the exposition of the criticized phenomena and in seeking the ways of overcoming them. As early as 1930s, he concluded that the crisis of democracy had deeper causes relating to the general order of European civilization and culture and to the crisis of values, namely freedom and equality ("freedom can only be freedom in order"). The author points out Fischers pre-war works (The Future of European Culture, 1927; The Third Empire, 1932; The Crisis of Democracy, 1933) as well as his minor essays from 1945–1946, in which he reflected the new political arrangements in Czechoslovakia. |
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