The Václav Havel Series of Karolinum accounts for continuation of the intelectual course of the thinker, playwright, dissident and president whose name it bears. It focuses on philosophy of the contemporary world. That means politics, art, architecture, recent general history and handling problems which affect our common responsibility. Neither the Series nor its volumes are thus regionally specific. On the contrary, the goal is to address questions posed to us by the contemporary world outside boundaries. All volumes are published in English, some of them simultaneously in Czech. The Series is prepared in collaboration with authors and institutions relevant to Václav Havel’s work and spirit such as the Václav Havel Library, conference Forum 2000, journal Nová Přítomnost/New Presence.
Danaher, David S.
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Williams, Kieran (eds.)
No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years ...
His Key Words and Their Legacy
published: january 2024
recommended price: 450 czk
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Možný, Ivo
When communism was ushered into Czechoslovakia, it was supposed to last forever – yet over eleven days in November 1989, this supposedly ...
A Sociological Essay
published: march 2023
recommended price: 350 czk
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Putna, Martin C.
An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a grea...
Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
published: june 2021
recommended price: 460 czk
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Šafařík, Josef
Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of man’s alienation from nature—and from himself—in the modern technological age. Conceived as a...
Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality
published: october 2020
recommended price: 450 czk
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Roubal, Petr
Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark ...
The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
published: january 2020
recommended price: 480 czk
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Petříček, Miroslav
Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reaso...
published: november 2019
recommended price: 420 czk
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Přibáň, Jiří
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Hvížďala, Karel
On the centennial of the Czechs gaining their independence, award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvížďala and Cardiff-based philosopher o...
On Czech Statehood and Identity
published: october 2019
recommended price: 400 czk
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Rossi, Jacques
In Fragmented Lives, Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a ser...
Chronicles of the Gulag
published: april 2019
recommended price: 290 czk
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Spurný, Matěj
Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When ...
A Laboratory of Socialist Modernity in Czechoslovakia
published: march 2019
recommended price: 520 czk
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Přibáň, Jiří
More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s study The Czech Question, Czech politics has becom...
The Czech Question in Post-national Europe
published: september 2017
recommended price: 420 czk
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