Abstract
The book "Hluboká - the cultural history of a hidden place" describes a community of young Catholic intellectuals, gathering in a private country house situated in a village Hluboká in the Bohemian Highland. "Hluboká" represents a specific transformation of a broader phenomenon of a counter-culture. This community was based on clearly critical attitude both against the modern secular society and its mass culture, and against the official Catholic Church. "Hluboká" is both a theological-cultural concept and a lifestyle.
In total, the "Hluboká" is a post-modern phenomenon, combining several motives of pre-modern cultures and using them for the rhetorical, often grotesque critique of the contemporary society and of the mainstream Catholic Church.