M Hrubec
Biographic Data
| ID | 38951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Hrubec |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hrubec |
| SIGNATURE | HRUBEC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9498-8678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Analyses of Western Geostrategic Projections Towards Latin America and the Caribbean
Interacciones mundiales de EE.UU. con su aliado y su rival. La era de los consequencias del capitalismo del conocimiento
El artículo analiza las interacciones globales de Estados Unidos con su aliado y rival en la era de las consecuencias del capitalismo del conocimiento, en particular las interacciones relacionadas con la soberanía estratégica y la autonomía estratégica. Aborda la diferenciación entre Estados Unidos, la República Popular China y la Unión Europea en tres partes. En primer lugar, como condición previa para explicar las relaciones contemporáneas entr…
Dilemmas of Local Recognition
The Global Significance of US Elections: Plutocratic Stimulation of Transnational Conflicts and Alternatives
The article discusses the global significance of US presidential elections and influences in terms of the plutocratic stimulation of transnational conflicts and alternative trajectories of justice. It differentiates plutocratic and democratic aspects in US presidential elections and identifies impacts in the world. Then, to understand the current US elections and future developments as the results of the political cycle, the article explains the …
The Global Impacts of US Presidential Elections
Uproar against Liberal Majoritarianism: Critiques from African Perspectives
The article deals with critiques of liberal majoritarianism from an African, chiefly sub-Saharan-African perspective. It explains the central claims African and Africanist critics advance against liberal majoritarianism and indicates potential normative ways of development. The case study of Guinea-Bissau exemplifies our arguments using a qualitative analysis of interviews with local respondents. The article infers that this is an instance of a m…
Post-Disaster Scenarios: Towards Environmental Alternatives of the Global South
While it is also relevant to address the Earth crisis using reformist approaches, this article analyzes a worse-case scenario. It deals with a post-disaster scenario that looks for ways out of a deeper environmental crisis or disaster. But this does not mean a scenario of a total global apocalypse. It addresses the topic in four steps: first, by stressing an importance of post-disaster scenarios between a mere reform and a total collapse; second,…
Strategic Socialism. The Updating of Cuba’s Model
The article deals with the theme of updating of Cuba’s economic model mainly from the perspective of economic and political philosophy and its interdisciplinary contexts. First, it examines the historical origins of Cuba’s socialist model and the subsequent changes after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Second, it analyses the actualization of Cuba’s model in the first two decades of the 21st century, that is, mainly the introduction of market and p…
Introduction: Social Changes in Latin America
Macro-regional Sovereignty? China, the USA, the EU
This article deals with a new practical philosophy of interactions between the West and China. It explains a new reconfiguration of three kinds of strategic relations: competition, adversary, and cooperation. It analyzes the concept of strategic sovereignty as self-reliance of major powers in key activities, which is expected to be an appropriate ultimate framework of their interactions. The article deals with the process of development of econom…
The Frankfurt institute at 100: The perspective of a trichotomic critical theory
This article was written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, where the Frankfurt School was founded and continues to evolve. From philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives, the article focuses on the trichotomic characteristics of critical theory, specifically: critique, explanation, and normativity. It looks first at the founding of the Institute for Social Research; second, …
Africa from Post-Colonialism to Multilateralism
This article deals with a differentiation of the historical phases of African trajectories in the global context from independence to the present day in order to overcome colonialism and global capitalism. It explains how to understand the historical trajectories from post-colonialism to unilateralism, multilateralism, and finally, the potential of polylateralism. It focuses on the problems and tendencies of advancement in Africa, mainly in sub-S…
Africa in a Multilateral World: Afropolitan Dilemmas
Introduction: China’s interactions in Eurasia
The rise of China is so far the biggest global phenomenon of the 21st century. It is also evident around China, on the Eurasian continent. The Symposium in this issue of Human Affairs focuses on this current significant phenomenon of China's interactions in Eurasia
The historical resources of China’s model: Relevance to the present
The article focuses on the historical resources of the China’s model. Understanding the model is one of necessary preconditions of an analysis of China’s dynamic rise and development in recent decades. First, the article analyses the concept of historical development of multiple civilisations and modernities. It then examines the characteristics of China’s old civilisation and the associated model. It ends by showing how the historical Silk Road …
Social and environmental conflicts or sustainable development? Positive alarmism
The article deals with the topic of mutually interlinked social and environmental conflicts and their possible resolution. First, it articulates the main ideas of the problematic historical dialectic of Western civilization. Second, it focuses on the whole human civilization as well. The sceptical explanatory critique of the historical and current development of the civilization(s) can be a contribution to, first, a positive alarmism which, secon…
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Contradictions of Global Capitalism and Civil Society
Threat of Limited Nuclear War
The article addresses the contemporary risks of limited nuclear war and its threat for societies. It offers a critical analysis based on the difference between the strategy of a global destructive war following classical application of standard nuclear weapons, on the one hand, and the new political military plan of limited nuclear war, without its global continuation, on the other. First, the article explains the problems connected with the new …
The conference from the Prague perspective
The text focuses on an academic and public importance of annual Prague meetings of critical theorists on the occation of the 25 anniversary of the conference organized in Prague. It deals with its unique meeting point between East and West, and North and South in order to enrich critical communication and cooperation in philosophy and social science
A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
The article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character. Secondly, it concentrates on relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy, and stresses the consequences of such an analy…
Authoritarian versus critical theory
This article will analyze three fundamental elements of critical social theory: critique, explanation and normativity. It will show that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable them to take a crucial place in critical social theory. Firstly, it will clarify the need for critical social and political theory to have an internal character. Secondly, it will concentrate on the relations between in…
Introduction: A Theory of Democracy and Justice
Introduction: A Theory of Democracy and Justice
Preconditions of an Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights
O artigo trata da questão dos direitos humanos quanto ao potencial de consenso entre culturas através do diálogo intercultural. Trata-se de uma contribuição para superar os confrontos entre civilizações e a imposição coercitiva de direitos humanos sobre outras culturas. O paper mostra que a promoção intercultural de direitos humanos entre culturas individuais que se reconhecem mutuamente é uma das formas efetivas de resistência contra a falta de …
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls The paper deals with the relation of a theory of international justice, specifically John Rawls's philosophy of the law of peoples, and a theory of global justice. In the first part, the paper outlines Rawls's main theses on the international conception of the law of peoples. The second part concerns a problem found in segments of Rawls's theory, specifically his …
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason The paper analyzes the conditions of civic participation that are elucidated by criticism of the deficits of public reason. The interpretation proceeds in three steps. First, the idea of public reason and discourse is analyzed, followed by an explanation of democratic deficit and of the social deficit in the second and third steps, respectively. These deficits are analyzed as an essent…
Authoritarian versus critical theory
This article will analyze three fundamental elements of critical social theory: critique, explanation and normativity. It will show that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable them to take a crucial place in critical social theory. Firstly, it will clarify the need for critical social and political theory to have an internal character. Secondly, it will concentrate on the relations between in…
Preconditions of an Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights
O artigo trata da questão dos direitos humanos quanto ao potencial de consenso entre culturas através do diálogo intercultural. Trata-se de uma contribuição para superar os confrontos entre civilizações e a imposição coercitiva de direitos humanos sobre outras culturas. O paper mostra que a promoção intercultural de direitos humanos entre culturas individuais que se reconhecem mutuamente é uma das formas efetivas de resistência contra a falta de …
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Contradictions of Global Capitalism and Civil Society
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls The paper deals with the relation of a theory of international justice, specifically John Rawls's philosophy of the law of peoples, and a theory of global justice. In the first part, the paper outlines Rawls's main theses on the international conception of the law of peoples. The second part concerns a problem found in segments of Rawls's theory, specifically his …
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason The paper analyzes the conditions of civic participation that are elucidated by criticism of the deficits of public reason. The interpretation proceeds in three steps. First, the idea of public reason and discourse is analyzed, followed by an explanation of democratic deficit and of the social deficit in the second and third steps, respectively. These deficits are analyzed as an essent…
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason
On Conditions of Participation: The Deficits of Public Reason The paper analyzes the conditions of civic participation that are elucidated by criticism of the deficits of public reason. The interpretation proceeds in three steps. First, the idea of public reason and discourse is analyzed, followed by an explanation of democratic deficit and of the social deficit in the second and third steps, respectively. These deficits are analyzed as an essent…
Introduction: A Theory of Democracy and Justice
Introduction: A Theory of Democracy and Justice
Preconditions of an Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights
O artigo trata da questão dos direitos humanos quanto ao potencial de consenso entre culturas através do diálogo intercultural. Trata-se de uma contribuição para superar os confrontos entre civilizações e a imposição coercitiva de direitos humanos sobre outras culturas. O paper mostra que a promoção intercultural de direitos humanos entre culturas individuais que se reconhecem mutuamente é uma das formas efetivas de resistência contra a falta de …
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls
The Law of Peoples and Global Justice: Beyond the Liberal Nationalism of John Rawls The paper deals with the relation of a theory of international justice, specifically John Rawls's philosophy of the law of peoples, and a theory of global justice. In the first part, the paper outlines Rawls's main theses on the international conception of the law of peoples. The second part concerns a problem found in segments of Rawls's theory, specifically his …
Authoritarian versus critical theory
This article will analyze three fundamental elements of critical social theory: critique, explanation and normativity. It will show that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable them to take a crucial place in critical social theory. Firstly, it will clarify the need for critical social and political theory to have an internal character. Secondly, it will concentrate on the relations between in…
A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
The article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character. Secondly, it concentrates on relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy, and stresses the consequences of such an analy…
The conference from the Prague perspective
The text focuses on an academic and public importance of annual Prague meetings of critical theorists on the occation of the 25 anniversary of the conference organized in Prague. It deals with its unique meeting point between East and West, and North and South in order to enrich critical communication and cooperation in philosophy and social science
Social and environmental conflicts or sustainable development? Positive alarmism
The article deals with the topic of mutually interlinked social and environmental conflicts and their possible resolution. First, it articulates the main ideas of the problematic historical dialectic of Western civilization. Second, it focuses on the whole human civilization as well. The sceptical explanatory critique of the historical and current development of the civilization(s) can be a contribution to, first, a positive alarmism which, secon…
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Contradictions of Global Capitalism and Civil Society
Threat of Limited Nuclear War
The article addresses the contemporary risks of limited nuclear war and its threat for societies. It offers a critical analysis based on the difference between the strategy of a global destructive war following classical application of standard nuclear weapons, on the one hand, and the new political military plan of limited nuclear war, without its global continuation, on the other. First, the article explains the problems connected with the new …
Introduction: China’s interactions in Eurasia
The rise of China is so far the biggest global phenomenon of the 21st century. It is also evident around China, on the Eurasian continent. The Symposium in this issue of Human Affairs focuses on this current significant phenomenon of China's interactions in Eurasia
The historical resources of China’s model: Relevance to the present
The article focuses on the historical resources of the China’s model. Understanding the model is one of necessary preconditions of an analysis of China’s dynamic rise and development in recent decades. First, the article analyses the concept of historical development of multiple civilisations and modernities. It then examines the characteristics of China’s old civilisation and the associated model. It ends by showing how the historical Silk Road …
Africa from Post-Colonialism to Multilateralism
This article deals with a differentiation of the historical phases of African trajectories in the global context from independence to the present day in order to overcome colonialism and global capitalism. It explains how to understand the historical trajectories from post-colonialism to unilateralism, multilateralism, and finally, the potential of polylateralism. It focuses on the problems and tendencies of advancement in Africa, mainly in sub-S…
Africa in a Multilateral World: Afropolitan Dilemmas
Macro-regional Sovereignty? China, the USA, the EU
This article deals with a new practical philosophy of interactions between the West and China. It explains a new reconfiguration of three kinds of strategic relations: competition, adversary, and cooperation. It analyzes the concept of strategic sovereignty as self-reliance of major powers in key activities, which is expected to be an appropriate ultimate framework of their interactions. The article deals with the process of development of econom…
The Frankfurt institute at 100: The perspective of a trichotomic critical theory
This article was written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, where the Frankfurt School was founded and continues to evolve. From philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives, the article focuses on the trichotomic characteristics of critical theory, specifically: critique, explanation, and normativity. It looks first at the founding of the Institute for Social Research; second, …
Post-Disaster Scenarios: Towards Environmental Alternatives of the Global South
While it is also relevant to address the Earth crisis using reformist approaches, this article analyzes a worse-case scenario. It deals with a post-disaster scenario that looks for ways out of a deeper environmental crisis or disaster. But this does not mean a scenario of a total global apocalypse. It addresses the topic in four steps: first, by stressing an importance of post-disaster scenarios between a mere reform and a total collapse; second,…
Strategic Socialism. The Updating of Cuba’s Model
The article deals with the theme of updating of Cuba’s economic model mainly from the perspective of economic and political philosophy and its interdisciplinary contexts. First, it examines the historical origins of Cuba’s socialist model and the subsequent changes after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Second, it analyses the actualization of Cuba’s model in the first two decades of the 21st century, that is, mainly the introduction of market and p…
Introduction: Social Changes in Latin America
Uproar against Liberal Majoritarianism: Critiques from African Perspectives
The article deals with critiques of liberal majoritarianism from an African, chiefly sub-Saharan-African perspective. It explains the central claims African and Africanist critics advance against liberal majoritarianism and indicates potential normative ways of development. The case study of Guinea-Bissau exemplifies our arguments using a qualitative analysis of interviews with local respondents. The article infers that this is an instance of a m…
Interacciones mundiales de EE.UU. con su aliado y su rival. La era de los consequencias del capitalismo del conocimiento
El artículo analiza las interacciones globales de Estados Unidos con su aliado y rival en la era de las consecuencias del capitalismo del conocimiento, en particular las interacciones relacionadas con la soberanía estratégica y la autonomía estratégica. Aborda la diferenciación entre Estados Unidos, la República Popular China y la Unión Europea en tres partes. En primer lugar, como condición previa para explicar las relaciones contemporáneas entr…
Dilemmas of Local Recognition
The Global Significance of US Elections: Plutocratic Stimulation of Transnational Conflicts and Alternatives
The article discusses the global significance of US presidential elections and influences in terms of the plutocratic stimulation of transnational conflicts and alternative trajectories of justice. It differentiates plutocratic and democratic aspects in US presidential elections and identifies impacts in the world. Then, to understand the current US elections and future developments as the results of the political cycle, the article explains the …
The Global Impacts of US Presidential Elections
Analyses of Western Geostrategic Projections Towards Latin America and the Caribbean
Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Capitalism (6 works) · China (5 works)