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A "spirit history" of Zdenek Kalista and German Geistesgeschichte
Čtvrtník, Mikuláš ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Horský, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with two crucial motifs. The first is the characterization of methodological concept of the spirit history as a specific historiographical movement outlined by Zdeněk Kalista. The author studies in detail all principal questions that Kalista tried to solve in his spirit history. The analysis is based not only on Kalista's texts concerning the methodology of history but his non-methodological historical works as well. Other Czech historians related to Kalista (also the ones that he was following to) are remarked. Besides Jaroslav Goll and Josef Pekař, first of all, Max Dvořák must be mentioned. It's no accident that Max Dvořák is classed as a significant representative of German Geistesgeschichte. The thesis includes an attempt to compare Dvořák's concept of history, like history of art as a place of expression of the epoch spirit and Kalista's spirit history. The second important sphere reflected in the thesis is the tradition of German Geistesgeschichte, specific historiographical trend that appeared primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. Detailed study of this tradition is essential if we seek deeper understanding of Kalista's methodology of history since Kalista followed this tradition by its spirit history and at the same time he tried to bring the definition of his own...
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Intellectual History in the Context of Czech and European Historiography in 19th and 20the Century
Čtvrtník, Mikuláš ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Středová, Veronika (referee) ; Horský, Jan (referee)
The main thematic scope and basis of the PhD thesis is the specific movement in the historiography called duchové dějiny (in English partly misleading translation intellectual history) in the form, in which it was developed in German speaking lands as Geistesgeschichte, and in the Czech historiography as duchové dějiny outlined by Zdeněk Kalista. In the PhD thesis duchové dějiny is put into the wide context of the development of historical thinking and methodology in the 19th and 20th century. The PhD thesis treats the subdiscipline of duchové dějiny in many perspectives and at different levels and thematically is not enclosed by the boundaries of the duchové dějiny itself. The duchové dějiny is here in a way an optics through which one line of historiography and historical thinking in the 19th and 20th century is observed, treated and interpreted. The PhD thesis also aims to connect the history and its methodology with the archivistics and archival theory. In this way proposes the thesis certain solutions. Nowadays, duchové dějiny belongs rather to the marginal movements or subdisciplines in the historiography in the Czech and German speaking lands, contrary to intellectual history in Anglophone areas. In spite of this the PhD thesis tried to show, that the duchové dějiny is still alive,...
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A "spirit history" of Zdenek Kalista and German Geistesgeschichte
Čtvrtník, Mikuláš ; Horský, Jan (referee) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor)
The thesis deals with two crucial motifs. The first is the characterization of methodological concept of the spirit history as a specific historiographical movement outlined by Zdeněk Kalista. The author studies in detail all principal questions that Kalista tried to solve in his spirit history. The analysis is based not only on Kalista's texts concerning the methodology of history but his non-methodological historical works as well. Other Czech historians related to Kalista (also the ones that he was following to) are remarked. Besides Jaroslav Goll and Josef Pekař, first of all, Max Dvořák must be mentioned. It's no accident that Max Dvořák is classed as a significant representative of German Geistesgeschichte. The thesis includes an attempt to compare Dvořák's concept of history, like history of art as a place of expression of the epoch spirit and Kalista's spirit history. The second important sphere reflected in the thesis is the tradition of German Geistesgeschichte, specific historiographical trend that appeared primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. Detailed study of this tradition is essential if we seek deeper understanding of Kalista's methodology of history since Kalista followed this tradition by its spirit history and at the same time he tried to bring the definition of his own...
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