Kolik historie „snese“ výzkum politiky?
How much history can political research ‘withstand’?

Author(s): Vít Hloušek
Subject(s): History, Political Sciences
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: history; politics; research; influence;
Summary/Abstract: Unlike the majority of the authors in this book, I am only an occasional historian. After studying history and political science at Masaryk University, my interest in the 20th century and contemporary politics led me closer to the latter discipline. In spite of this, since my student days I’ve wanted to link these two disciplines, which I believe could lead to a fruitful symbiosis for a number of good reasons. I will attempt to present some of them in this essay. I have much in common with Timothy Garton Ash and his ‘history of the present’ approach.1 Although this does not fit in with mainstream ideas about the social sciences today, I try to reflect on and write about this kind of history of the present in my teaching and research.

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