Číslo 2 (2014)
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Item Neoliberalismus a marginalita: studie z českého reálkapitalismu(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Bílek, Jaroslav
Item Dejiny sociálneho a politického myslenia(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Sekerák, MariánItem „Protože my už v tom ňák umíme chodit.“ Vztah teenagerů a informačních a komunikačních technologií(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Gillárová, KateřinaThere is no doubt, information and communication technologies (ICT) have established themselves as an axiomatic element of young people’s everyday leisure lifestyles and school-based experience. But what is the Czech teenagers’ relationship with ICT in their everyday lives? There is still little evidence in the Czech context. This paper will try to shed some light on this issue based on the results of a PhD research project. This research focused on teenaged members of two natural social groups during two and a half years using qualitative research methods. The text will describe the character of the relationship between the teenagers studied and ICT, the factors which determine it and the domains of interaction between ICT and teenagers and corresponding functions. ICT was shown to be the tools empowering the teenagers to do what they had to do in the most convenient way for them, and what they, as maturing individuals, liked to do such as socializing with their peers. This way they enhanced their agency.Item Indonésie v roli nastupující mocnosti(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Pitař, Martin; Štollová, SandraThe aim of this article is to briefly introduce the issue of emerging powers in the international system, and then analyze the prototype of Indonesia as a theoretical concept. The emerging powers begin to speak in connection with the transformation of the nature of the international system, especially after the Cold War. At this time, a transformation of traditional Western dominance and the system will change into a form that is often called postmodern. The global expansion of the capitalist economy works among other things as a motor to increase the economic growth of countries that played a minor role before the collapse of bipolar arrangements in the international system. Populous countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and others showing a rapid economic growth and thus become not only important trading partners of the traditional Western powers, but above all also major players in the international system. The present text will, in its first, theoretical part, present the issue of emerging powers, a distinguishing theoretical concept in connection with the issue of usage. The second part is then a case study of Indonesia as an example of an emerging power with a focus on economic and foreign political characteristics of the country. This section will also acknowledge the theoretical framework connected with empirical data. Indonesia was chosen deliberately as an example of power that does not belong to the category of BRIC(S) and is not normally subject to similar analyses.Item Internalismus a externalismus v historiografii arabsko-islámské vědy se zaměřením na medicínu(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Ramadan, IvanThis paper is concerned with the internalism/externalism issue as reflected in the historiography of medieval Arabic/Islamic science with focus on medicine. The introductory part touches on the theoretical aspects of the internalist/externalist debate; it looks at the internalist/ externalist dichotomy, discusses the gradual shift to the eclectic approach and traces the current trends in terms of approaches to the study of the history of science in general. The main part of the paper is devoted to analyzing and assessing some selected articles and publications on medieval Arabic/Islamic science and medicine with view to the internalist/ externalist approaches used by their authors. The conclusions drawn reveal the prevalence of the internalist approach in works written in the more distant past, while most of the current studies, especially those authored by Western scholars, reflect the impact of the social history of science with its specific methods.Item Počátky asyrského náboženství(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Král, PavelThis paper takes up the issue of the beginning of Assyrian religion which we find in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC and the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. The author has focused on two main Assyrian deities of this period, Ashur and Ishtar. We keep at our disposal only a few sources of information relevant to the beginning of the Assyrian religion. We know well the Ishtar Temple in the city Ashur, and we have some inscriptions, also mostly from the city Ashur. On the basis of these sources, we can take different views of the matter. One theory says that the origin of the god Ashur is in the homonymic deification of city. This conclusion is possible, but not the only one. One theory, presented first in this paper, says that the cult of the god Ashur came from a region outside Mesopotamia. It seems that the Assyrian religion contained elements both unique to Assyria, and similar to that of Southern Mesopotamia.Item Zrod buršenšaftů: Příspěvek k rané historii německého nacionalismu(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Pásztorová, BarboraThe aim of this study is the analysis of the development of Burschenschaften from their formation as radicalization of one part of the student movement until the prohibition of politically engaged associations in consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees’ acceptance, and to offer a balanced view on Burschenschaften and their influence on early German nationalism. The meaning of Burschenschaften for early German nationalism was extensive. It consisted primarily in formation and spreading of national ideas in all the German states and social classes, in propagation of the formation of one united national state and also in the effort to establish liberal reforms and, in the first instance, constitutions on the basis of the Article 13 German Federal Act. However the radicalism, which was connected to the Burschenschaften, discredited later the whole student movement. It paralyzed all its progressive strengths and led to the prohibition of the Burschenschaften.Item Count János Esterházy (1901–1957) – short political portrait of leading figure of Czechoslovak Hungarian minority in the Thirtieths of the 20th Century(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Tóth, AndrejThe study presents a brief political survey of one of the most significant personalities of the Hungarian minority in interwar Czechoslovakia of the 1930’s, Count János Esterházy. The article summarizes Esterházy’s political career and political attitudes not only in interwar Czechoslovakia where in 1932 he, as a politically completely unknown personality, became leader of the Hungarian Provincial Christian-Socialist Party, assuming later, in 1936, as one of the best known figures of the Czechoslovak Hungarian minority political scene already, the position of executive president of the sole central party of the Hungarian minority in the Czechoslovak state, the United Hungarian Party. The article summarizes also his second period of political career in the separated Slovak Republic (1939–1945) when he led the only permitted political party in the Slovak State, the Slovak Hungarian Party, being at the same time the sole representative of the Slovak Hungarian minority in the Slovak parliament. Attention is paid also to his tragic fate after World War II when he was first carted off to GULAG work camps in the Soviet Union and subsequently sentenced in his absence in Czechoslovakia to death by hanging.Item Rýnská krize v kontextu mezinárodních vztahů doby předbřeznové(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Šedivý, MiroslavThe goal of this paper is to use the Rhine Crisis of 1840 for reevaluating the traditional view of international relations during the Vormärz as a period when the Great Powers limited their self-serving ambitions with their alleged sense of an all-European responsibility, the period when the relations among the countries were founded upon the solid legal foundations laid by the Congress of Vienna, the period when the second-rate states willingly subsumed themselves to the leadership of the Great Powers. However, the course of the Rhine Crisis proves the contrary. And last but not at least, this paper attempts to introduce the Rhine Crisis to a Czech reader since this Crisis has never been analyzed in a Czech journal or book and, consequently, remains rather unknown in the Czech Republic.Item Německý spolek, slepá ulička v dějinách?(Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2014) Boček, MartinThe paper attempts to explain conditions of formation and the functioning of the German Confederation. These issues are examined through an unusual view, which is trying to find positive characteristics of the German Confederation at the time of establishment in 1815 and also to prove that the German Confederation was not simply the blind alley of German history, as argued in earlier historiography, but a feasible opportunity for the later Lesser German solution – at least at the beginning of existence of the Confederation. Simultaneously, the paper explains the reasons why the German Confederation lost this potential so soon. For the sake of comprehensiveness of the study, the international policy development of Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is also outlined, and the importance of the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine to the genesis of the German Confederation is also explained.
