Understanding the Debate around the âCzech Questionâ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Miroslav Hroch

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Chapter 1 Understanding the Debate around the âCzech Questionâ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

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Abstract

By the late nineteenth century, the Czech nation had become a large social community. A vast majority of the Czech-speaking population in the Czech Lands identified with it, though it does not mean that they all shared or supported nationalist views. Thanks to the efforts of educated patriots, the Czech-speaking population also had a viable culture on the national level as an abstract community of shared values. This community had developed to such an extent that the ethno-nationalist program, which focused primarily on efforts to put the Czech language on an equal footing with German, had largely lost its raison dâÃªtre. Negotiations about Czech historical rights and political autonomy became anachronistic for the same reason. The politics of the Young Czech Party thus reached a crisis point at the very point when it became clearly dominant in the national movement. Its program dissipated into multiple currents, thereby becoming in a sense vacuous, nationally bounded, and narrowly oriented on minor, quotidian disputes. This of course also heralded the end of ascendancy of the Young Czechs.

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Recalling Masarykâs The Czech Question

Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 381Â andÂ Central European Value Studies, Volume: 381

Cover Recalling Masarykâs <i>The Czech Question</i>

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004534919

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 03 Feb 2023

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- Philosophy
  - 19th & 20th Century Philosophy
  - Social & Political Philosophy
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  - Area Studies

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Part 1 The Historical Context of Masarykâs Czech Question

Part 2 Ethics as the Heart of Philosophy

Part 3 The Pro-Masaryk View of the Czech Question

Part 4 The Anti-Masaryk View of the Czech Question

Part 5 The Word of a Politician in Exile

Part 6 The Word of a Pastor

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Chapter 1 Understanding the Debate around the âCzech Questionâ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Recalling Masarykâs The Czech Question