This course aims to provide students with the basic orientation in the evolution of modern political thought in the Central European context with the help of the identification of crucial symbolical and ideological changes of this region from the 17th to the 20th century. From the methodological perspective, the course interlinks the approaches of history of ideas and political philosophy which enable to reflect the Central European thought as a historical phenomenon in the interdisciplinary way emphasizing its embeddedness in the issues of the then empirical politics. The main focus of the course thus lies in the analysis of the historical patterns of Czech, Polish and Hungarian intellectual patterns concerning the thinking about politics with an effort to consider to what extent one can assume the existence of common Central European tradition of political thought.
- Enseignant: Jan Květina