T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Robert B. Pynsent

   Pages 1-9

3. Masaryk in the Austrian Parliament on a Reform Bill of Legal Studies

   • Anna M. Drabek

   Pages 10-18

4. The Social Philosophy of T. G. Masaryk: A Question of Suicide

   • Benjamin B. Page

   Pages 19-36

5. The Moral Difference between Personal and Structural Violence: Masaryk’s Criticism of an Argument in Nezávislé listy

   • Antonie van den Beld

   Pages 37-51

6. The Hilsner Affair: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and the Individual in the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the Century

   • Steven Beller

   Pages 52-76

7. The Ambiguity of Masaryk’s Attitudes on the ‘Jewish Question’

   • Michael A. Riff

   Pages 77-87

8. Masaryk as an Interpreter of Russian Philosophy

   • James P. Scanlan

   Pages 88-101

9. Masaryk as an Interpreter of Russian Populism

   • Rolf H. W. Theen

   Pages 102-119

10. Masaryk’s Quarrel with Marxism

    • Jan Milič Lochman

    Pages 120-133

11. Masaryk and Czech Socialism

    • Jacques Rupnik

    Pages 134-148

12. Masaryk and Belles-Lettres

    • Karel Brušák

    Pages 149-159

13. Masaryk and Machar’s Literary Criticism in Naše doba

    • Peter Drews

    Pages 160-173

14. Masaryk’s Style in the Framework of Czech Realist Tendencies

    • Hana Voisine-Jechová

    Pages 174-185

15. Masaryk and Wilson: A contribution to the Study of their Relations

    • Victor S. Mamatey

    Pages 186-197

16. Back Matter

    Pages 198-204

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Between the wars a personality cult grew around Masaryk. These three volumes constitute the first balanced critical assessment of the actual achievement of the university professor who became the first president of Czechoslovakia. In this the first volume scholars from Europe and North America offer new insights into the career and ideas of Masaryk during the three decades preceding the outbreak of World War I. They appraise his role as critic of injustice and outworn tradition, providing a most significant interpretation of his place in modern history.

• assessment
• authenticity
• Europe
• linguistics
• personality
• Professor
• school
• state
• university
• war
• World War I

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  Robert B. Pynsent

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