Ladislav Hejdánek a literární historie?
Ladislav Hejdánek and literary history?

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with Ladislav Hejdánek’s philosophical thought and its possible influences on the history of literature. Attention is focused on two problem areas: first on Hejdánek’s work on the nature of art, which was of substantial importance, particularly in the cultural and social polemics of the 1960s, as his theoretical definition of art went along similar lines to reader response criticism and Umberto Eco’s ideas. However, in view of his considerable detachment from the literature of the object it did not provide any initiatives that had a significant impact on literary studies concepts. Hejdánek’s non-object process philosophy, centring around the concept of the event, may be considered to be of greater importance. Here it is possible to seek tools for a more dynamic non-essential conception of periodization, and more than anything else, individual frameworks (genres, directions and discourses) with broader applicability.

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