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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 45 No 1 (1999), 219–223
Jan Slavík a jeho Vznik českého národa
[Jan Slavík and His Rise of the Czech Nation]
Jaroslav Bouček
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.301
published online: 31. 03. 2020
abstract
PhDr. Jaroslav Bouček is the author of article called “Jan Slavík and His Rise of the Czech Nation”. It is a reflection on a book by a historian who led discussions with his teacher, Professor Josef Pekař, about the conception of Czech history and particularly about the interpretation of the Hussite movement and also about theory and methodology of historical cognition. The author of the article describes Slavík’s conception of historical research, his relationship to facts, his search for correlations between processes and dynamics that Slavík finds in the history. In his interpretation Slavík started from economic and social structure of population. For him, the concept of a nation was not a rigid social form and the Czech state rose from minor tribal states on the basis of certain economic changes. Only through contacts with foreigners did the conscience of national unity gradually emerge. Slavík formulated the meaning of Czech history as follows: “A brief outline of Czech history will show us that it was a timely acceptance of intellectual and social progress that became the star bringing salvation to the Czech nation. It grew stronger and more prosperous in conformity with inner progress of European mankind. It was endangered whenever reactionary forces had triumphed.” Jaroslav Bouček maintains that “The Rise of the Czech Nation” by Slavík featured new approaches of modem Czech historiography. Slavík’s claim to apply methods of other social sciences, such as social psychology or linguistic anthropology, in recognition of history has remained topical till today.
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