Josef Ludvík Fischer – Udržování intelektuálních pozic v proměňujících se situacích
Josef Ludvík Fischer – Maintenance of Intellectual Positions in Changing Situations

Summary/Abstract: This intellectual biography of Josef Ludvík Fischer, one of the profilingfigures of Czech sociology in the second third of last century, is based onthe reconstruction of his specific habitus as a member of the “constructivegeneration” of the so-called First Czechoslovak Republic. It shows the productivityof Fischer’s combination of sociological, philosophical, and literarytheory approaches, and especially places emphasis on Fischer’s transitionto the systemic-structural concept of sociological (Saint Simon and AugusteComte, 1927) and noetic rationalism (Základy poznání/The Fundamentalsof Knowledge, 1931), which preceded some of the methodological principles ofthe Prague Linguistic Circle. In these contexts, the biography also mentionsFischer’s early thoughts on the unified culture of Europe, as well as the relatedcriticism of German National Socialism in the first third of the 1930s. Thetwo-volume publication, Krize demokracie (The Crisis of Democracy), ishighlighted as the second peak of Fischer’s work, which influenced the Czechleftist liberalism of the so-called “Barrandov Group”, and, with some of hisconcepts (qualitative democracy, economic parliament, cultural and politicalamalgamation, etc.), a young Václav Havel, as well.

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