Abstract
Jan Géryk calls is his chapter for such a theoretical and institutional framework that could keep the youthful energy of the revolution alive in the everyday functioning of the state, not only in the nostalgic moments of anniversaries and anti-government demonstrations. Géryk first distinguishes between the spatial and substantial aspects of civil society, and then between three possible temporal geometries of societal turning points.
While analyzing the period of transition, we can emphasize either the continuum of history, or the radical Beginning totally disconnected from the previous regime, or the return to the historical democratic tradition.