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Bernard Bolzano

A New Evaluation of His Thought and His Circle

Bernard Bolzano

A New Evaluation of His Thought and His Circle

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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793653055
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 01/09/2022
Width: 15.8 cm
Height: 23.7 cm

This book introduces the ethical, philosophical, and social legacy of the work of Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), highlighting the theological element of Bolzano’s thought. Bolzano influenced several key thinkers (primarily Catholic priests) such as Vincenc Zahradník, Josef Michael Fesl, Anton Krombholz, František Schneider, and their pupils and successors. Zahradník co-founded an important professional Czech periodical and created much of modern Czech theological terminology. Anton Krombholz became an important representative of Austrian education after 1848, working at the Vienna Ministry of Education. Based on her previous comprehensive Czech monograph, the author now highlights other new manuscripts from Krombholz’s literary legacy. She underscores connections between Bolzano's legacy and the reform movement of the Czech Catholic clergy, emphasizing that Bolzano's ideas resonated in Czech Catholic modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Notwithstanding the tumultuous national development of Czechs and Germans in nineteenth-century Bohemia, Bolzano's conception of a peaceful coexistence between the two nationalities in Bohemia very favorably contributed to the preservation of the unity of the Catholic Church during such ethnically complex times. The author’s theological conception drew upon the works of Jan Milíc Lochman (1922–2004), who, in addition to writing on contemporary ecumenical themes, also dealt with the spiritual legacy of the Czech National Revival.

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: The Late Enlightenment in Bohemia and within the Bolzano Circle

Chapter 2: The Ethical Foundations of Bolzano’s Works

Chapter 3: Reflections on the Transformation of the Family after the Advent of Industrial Society

Chapter 4: Bolzano and the Jewish Question

Chapter 5: The Theological, Philosophical, and Pedagogical Problematic of Vincenc Zahradník

Chapter 6: Krombholz’s Manuscripts

Chapter 7: The Importance of New Research on Bolzano and His Circle

Bibliography

Index

About the Author and Translator

Kamila Veverková, Angelo Shaun Franklin

Kamila Veverková works as the dean of the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague.

Angelo Shaun Franklin is an independent researcher who works as a translator and educational consultant in Prague.

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