Syllabus
Students are required to follow the instructions and requirements specified in the course sylabus available at: http://upces.cerge-ei.cz/images/stories/syllabi/Central%20European%20Philosophy.pdf
Reading materials: the coordinators of the UPCES programme will inform the enrolled students where to get them.
Annotation
This is one of the courses of the UPCES programme (the Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#2.
This course introduces ways of philosophizing in Central Europe in the second half of the 20th century. The emphases are put on non-Marxist thinking and liberal Marxist ideas as well as the opposing dogmatic state-endorsed philosophy of the soviet-style Marxism-Leninism. The effort will be made to underlie similarities and distinctions in ways in which harshness of political regimes, ever-present ideological dominance, courage, and personal stance of individual thinkers shaped the way they adopted and developed Western style of philosophizing.