STUDIES IN RUSSIA AND EAST EUROPE formerly Studies in Russian and East European History Chairman of the Editorial Board: M. A. Branch, Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. This series includes books on general, political, historical, economic, social and cultural themes relating to Russia and East Europe written or edited by members of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in the University of London, or by authors working in association with the School. Titles already published are listed below. Further titles are in preparation. Phyllis Auty and Richard Clogg (editors) BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS WARTIME RESISTANCE IN YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE Elisabeth Barker BRITISH POLICY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Richard Clogg (editor) THE MOVEMENT FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE, 1770-1821: A COLLEC TION OF DOCUMENTS Olga Crisp STUDIES IN THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY BEFORE 1914 John C. K. Daly RUSSIAN SEA POWER AND 'THE EASTERN QUESTION', 1827-41 Dennis Deletant and Harry Hanak (editors) HISTORIANS AS NATION-BUILDERS: CENTRAL AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE Jane Grayson and Faith Wigzell (editors) NIKOLA Y GOGOL: TEXT AND CONTEXT Harry Hanak (editor) T. G. MASARYK (1850-1937) Volume 3: Statesman and Cultural Force Geoffrey A. Hosking and George F. Cushing (editors) PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN AND WEST ERN EUROPE D. G. Kirby (editor) FINLAND AND RUSSIA, 1808-1920: DOCUMENTS Martin McCauley THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET STATE, 1917-1921: DOCU MENTS (editor) KHRUSHCHEV AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET AGRICULTURE COMMUNIST POWER IN EUROPE: 1944-1949 (editor)
MARXISM-LENINISM IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY (SED) THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC SINCE 1945 KHRUSHCHEV AND KHRUSHCHEVISM (editor) THE SOVIET UNION UNDER GORBACHEV (editor) Martin McCauley and Stephen Carter (editors) LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESSION IN THE SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE AND CHINA Martin McCauley and Peter Waldron THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN STATE, 1856--61 Uszl6 Peter and Robert B. Pynsent (editors) INTELLECfUALS AND THE FUTURE IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, 1890-1914 Robert B. Pynsent (editor) T. G. MASARYK (1850-1937) Volume 2: Thinker and Critic Evan Mawdsley THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE BALTIC FLEET J. J. Tomiak (editor) WESTERN PERSPECfIVES ON SOVIET EDUCATION IN THE 1980s Stephen White and Alex Pravda (editors) IDEOLOGY AND SOVIET POLITICS Stanley B. Winters (editor) T. G. MASARYK (1850-1937) Volume 1: Thinker and Politician Series Standing Order If you would like to receive future titles in this series as they are published, you can make use of our standing order facility. To place a standing order please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address and the name of the series. Please state with which title you wish to begin your IItanding order. (If you live outside the UK we may not have 'he rights for your area, in which case we will forward your order to the publisher concerned.) Standing Order Service, Macmillan Distribution Ud, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG212XS, England.
T. G. Masaryk (1850-1937) Volume 2 Thinker and Critic Edited by Robert B. Pynsent Reader in Czech and Slovak Literature School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London M MACMILLAN in association with the Palgrave Macmillan
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 1989 978-0-333-46246-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1989 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-20368-0 ISBN 978-1-349-20366-6 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20366-6 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Reprinted 1993
Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Robert B. Pynsent vii 1 1 Masaryk in the Austrian Parliament on a Reform Bill of Legal Studies 10 Anna M. Drabek 2 The Social Philosophy of T. G. Masaryk: A Question of Suicide 19 Benjamin B. Page 3 The Moral Difference between Personal and Structural Violence: Masaryk's Criticism of an Argument in NezavisLe listy 37 Antonie van den Beld 4 The Hilsner Affair: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and the Individual in the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the ~~ry ~ Steven Beller 5 The Ambiguity of Masaryk's Attitudes on the 'Jewish Question' 77 Michael A. Riff 6 Masaryk as an Interpreter of Russian Philosophy 88 James P. Scanlan 7 Masaryk as an Interpreter of Russian Populism 102 Rolf H. W. Theen 8 Masaryk's Quarrel with Marxism 120 Jan Milic Lochman 9 Masaryk and Czech Socialism 134 Jacques Rupnik 10 Masaryk and Belles-Lettres 149 Karel Bridak v
vi Contents 11 Masaryk and Machar's Literary Criticism in Nase doba 160 Peter Drews 12 Masaryk's Style in the Framework of Czech Realist Tendencies 174 Rana Voisine-Jechova 13 Masaryk and Wilson: a Contribution to the Study of their Relations 186 Victor S. Mamatey Index 198
Notes on Contributors Steven Beller is Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His main field of enquiry is the Jewish aspect to Viennese 'Modern' culture around 1900, on which he has published several articles. Karel Brusak is Visiting Lecturer in Czech with Slovak at the University of Cambridge. He has published numerous articles on European literature. Anna M. Drabek is Reader in Modern History at the University of Vienna and research assistant in the Austrian section of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published books and articles on the Middle Ages and on Czech history. Peter Drews is Reader in Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau. He has published mainly on Czech and Russian literature in the western European context. Jan Milic Lochman is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Basle. He was Vice-Chancellor of that University between 1981 and 1983. He has published extensively on theology, philosophy and Czech cultural history. Victor S. Mamatey is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Georgia, where he taught Modern European History from 1967 to 1982. Between 1949 and 1967 he taught at Florida State, Columbia and Tulane Universities. He has published books and articles on the history of Czechoslovakia and of East Central Europe. Benjamin B. Page is Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac College. He has published a book and various articles on Czech social philosophy and theology. Robert B. Pynsent is Reader in Czech and Slovak Literature at the University of London. He has published books and articles on European language and literature, particularly Czech and Slovak. vii
viii Notes on Contributors Michael A. Riff is Assistant Director of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and has taught at universities in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has written on the Jews and anti-semitism in south-western Germany as well as in the Bohemian Lands. Jacques Rupnik is Senior Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He has published extensively on Czech history and politics. His history of the Czechoslovak Communist Party was published in Paris in 1981. James P. Scanlan is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He has published extensively, mainly on the history of philosophy in Russia and on recent Soviet Marxism. Rolf H. W. Theen is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He has published books and articles on Russian intellectual history and Soviet domestic politics. Antonie van den Beld is Reader in Moral Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His doctoral thesis on Masaryk's political and social philosophy was published in English in 1975. Hana Voisine-Jechova is Professor of Czech Language and Literature at the Sorbonne. She has published books and articles on Czech, Polish and comparative literature and on literary theory.