The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture (eBook)

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Literature and Literary Criticism -- Recent Czech Literary History and Criticism -- Humanistic and Democratic Thought in Czech Literature -- Two Paradoxes of Czech Literary Evolution -- One Hundred and Twenty Years of Slovak Literary Language -- Czech Opinion of America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- The Real Legacy of Karel ?apek -- ?apek and Communism -- The Art of Jan ?ep -- Traditions of Czech Literature and the Writer in Exile -- Linguistics -- The Czech Contribution to Modern Linguistics -- Moravian Codification of the First Slavic Literary Language -- The Influence of John of Neumarkt -- Music and Fine Arts -- Music in Czechoslovakia -- The Influence of 18th Century Czech Composers on the Development of Classical Music -- Czechoslovak Painting from its Beginning until the Second World War -- Illuminator Egregius Temporibus Wenceslai IV in Regno Bohemiae Florens -- Frank Kupka (1871-1957) -- The Contribution of the Sculpture of Czechoslovakia to the World of Art -- History -- The First Contact of Czechs with Western Civilization: The Mission of St. Amand in the 7th Century -- Dynamics of the Spatial Concept of Czechoslovakia : Persistence of Regional Consciousness and Unity over the Span of Thirteen Centuries -- The Religion of Hussite Tabor -- George of Pod?brady's Plan for an International Peace League -- The Development of Czechoslovak Historical Writing -- Jaroslav Goll and his Historical School -- The Success of Professor Dvorník's Research in the Vindication of the Patriarch Photius -- Political Science and Philosophy -- Background of Czechoslovak Democracy -- Political Science in Czechoslovakia -- Masaryk and Plato in the 20th Century -- Sociology -- The Character of Czech Scholarship: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge -- The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Development of the Czechoslovak Society -- The Development of Sociology in Czechoslovakia before World War II -- Anticipated Changes in Czechoslovakia -- Economics -- Teleological Construction of Economics: Professor Karel Engliš' Contribution to Economic Thought -- Tomáš Bat'a - Pioneer of Self-Government in Industry -- Czechoslovak Grain Monopoly System -- Economic and Social Structure of Czechoslovak Society between the Two Wars -- Problems of Measuring Industrial Output in Czechoslovakia -- Law -- The Origins and Development of the Study of History of Law in the Territory of Czechoslovakia (1775-1939) -- The Czechoslovak Constitutions of 1920, 1948, and 1960 -- The Brno School of Jurisprudence -- Election Laws and Democratic Government -- Some Criminological and Socio-Political Aspects of Czechoslovak Pre-Communist and Communist Legislation on Abortion -- Science and Technology -- The Purkinje Effect in the Evolution of Scientific Thought -- Jind?ich Matiegka and the Anthropometric Approach to the Study of Body Composition -- The Czechoslovak Contribution to the Change in Concept of Circulation of the Blood -- Prokop Waldfogel of Prague and the 15th Century Printers of the Kingdom of Bohemia -- Czechoslovak Engineering until the Second World War -- Five Centuries of Czech Geography, Exploration, and Cartography Comments on Major Trends and Present Status -- Czechs and Slovaks Abroad -- The Present Day Significance of John A. Comenius -- Augustine He?man of Bohemia Manor -- Aleš Hrdli?ka, Pioneer American Physical Anthropologist -- The Czechs in Texas -- Czechs and Slovaks in Latin America -- Trends in Czech and Slovak Economic Enterprise in the New World -- Czech and Slovak Press Outside Czechoslovakia -- Early Czech Journalism in the United States -- Bibliography -- Czechoslovakia and its Arts and Sciences: A Selective Bibliography in the Western European Languages -- Contributors to this Volume -- Index