Ivan Svítak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5370831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Svítak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Svítak |
| SIGNATURE | SVÍTAK I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Odpověď Ivana Svitáka
Human being or sexus
Člověk nebo sexus
Response from Ivan Sviták
The Blind Alley
Indeed, we have to think about life and not about the quantity of deadly weapons, although the pacifist and militarist propagandists would like to convince us that what counts are the numbers of atomic missiles, placed at the disposal of M.A.D., N.U.T.s with B.O.O.B.s (M.A.D.—mutual assured destruction, N.U.T.—nuclear use theory, B.O.O.B.—blow out of the blue.) The current problem cannot be solved if we disregard the historical context, the relat…
Lessons from Poland
The Soviets believe that the Poles are completely mad — as was Solzhenitsyn a few years ago. But there are not enough planes to deport all of them to the West, as part of the friendly export of Soviet dissenters and as a nice example of how the Soviet leadership understands detente and the Helsinki agreements. The Poles must be mad, because in a “classless” society, they are struggling to get rid of a ruling class, which ideologically does not ex…
Nightfrost in Prague
Zdenek Mlynar, Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism. Paul Wilson, trans. New York: Karz Publishers, 1980
Illusions of Czech Socialist Democracy
The Prague Spring has heen characterized as a national crisis, as a technocratic plan that failed, as an antibureaucratic revolution with a humanistic ideology, as a revolution from the top, as a revolt of the intellectuals, as a hasty improvisation, as a creeping counterrevolution, as a rebellion against Leninism, as a concrete Utopia, as an ill-timed experiment, as a traffic accident of history, or — as a miracle. The Prague Spring inaugurated …
Marginal Notes on Prague Spring 1968
In what kind of society did the Prague Spring 1968 take place? The nature of East European societies and the Soviet Union can be described in different terms—according to the theory underlying the empirical structure of facts or according to the meaning which we give to the facts, events and persons themselves. If we do not know the significance of historical phenomena, then we do not know in fact the phenomena themselves, and we read history as …
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Marginal Notes on Prague Spring 1968
In what kind of society did the Prague Spring 1968 take place? The nature of East European societies and the Soviet Union can be described in different terms—according to the theory underlying the empirical structure of facts or according to the meaning which we give to the facts, events and persons themselves. If we do not know the significance of historical phenomena, then we do not know in fact the phenomena themselves, and we read history as …
Illusions of Czech Socialist Democracy
The Prague Spring has heen characterized as a national crisis, as a technocratic plan that failed, as an antibureaucratic revolution with a humanistic ideology, as a revolution from the top, as a revolt of the intellectuals, as a hasty improvisation, as a creeping counterrevolution, as a rebellion against Leninism, as a concrete Utopia, as an ill-timed experiment, as a traffic accident of history, or — as a miracle. The Prague Spring inaugurated …
Nightfrost in Prague
Zdenek Mlynar, Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism. Paul Wilson, trans. New York: Karz Publishers, 1980
Lessons from Poland
The Soviets believe that the Poles are completely mad — as was Solzhenitsyn a few years ago. But there are not enough planes to deport all of them to the West, as part of the friendly export of Soviet dissenters and as a nice example of how the Soviet leadership understands detente and the Helsinki agreements. The Poles must be mad, because in a “classless” society, they are struggling to get rid of a ruling class, which ideologically does not ex…
The Blind Alley
Indeed, we have to think about life and not about the quantity of deadly weapons, although the pacifist and militarist propagandists would like to convince us that what counts are the numbers of atomic missiles, placed at the disposal of M.A.D., N.U.T.s with B.O.O.B.s (M.A.D.—mutual assured destruction, N.U.T.—nuclear use theory, B.O.O.B.—blow out of the blue.) The current problem cannot be solved if we disregard the historical context, the relat…
Odpověď Ivana Svitáka
Human being or sexus
Člověk nebo sexus
Response from Ivan Sviták
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Communism (3 works)