Volume 57 (2002), 10

During the monopoly of Marxist-Leninist philosophy in Slovakia the critical opinions and reformation attempts played an important role. Although rooted in the ruling doctrine, they in fact transcended it. The first reformation stream appeared in the frame of historical studies of Slovak philosophy as soon as in the first half of the 1950s. It stood up against the… Read more

In the 1960s two concepts of philosophy clashed in Slovak philosophy: the concept of philosophy as a hand-maid of ideology and the concept of philosophy as an open system. This process took place as a prolonged controversy with dogmatism on one hand and as an inner differentiation of Marxist philosophy on the other hand. The attempts at a redefinition of the… Read more

The paper offers a critical analysis of the works of Miroslav Kusý, published in the 1960s and devoted to a more detailed articulation of the problems of Marxist gnoseology, as well as to the topical questions of philosophical anthropology and the philosophy of politics. The author focuses also on Kusý´s ever growing interest in the problematic of political… Read more

The paper discusses the intellectual development of one of the representatives of Slovak academic elite, social philosopher A. Sirácky in the 1960s. The author argues, that there has been a visible shift in the rigid and dogmatic ideological vision of the world of this leading representative of Slovak thought.

The establishment of The Slovak Philosophical Society in 1964 and its character were determined by the favorable social and political atmosphere in the middle of the 1960s. The ambition of the Society was to establish a scientific discussion forum for all professional philosophers in Slovakia. Its objective was the promotion of the Marxist philosophy, deprived of… Read more