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Book review: Välimäki, Reima. Heresy in late medieval Germany: the inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians. First published. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press, 2019. xv, 335 stran. Heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages; volume 6. ISBN 978-1-903153-86-4.
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Book review: Fudge, Thomas A. Jerome of Prague and the foundations of the Hussite movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii, 379 stran. ISBN 978-0-19-049884-9.
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Book review: Horníčková, Kateřina, ed. Faces of community in Central European towns: images, symbols, and performances, 1400-1700. Lanham: Lexington Books, [2018], ©2018. 430 stran. ISBN 978-1-4985-5112-0.
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Book reviews: Adde-Vomáčka, Éloïse. La chronique de Dalimil: les débuts de l'historiographie nationale tchèque en langue vulgaire au XIVe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016. 461 stran, 15 nečíslovaných stran obrazových příloh. Textes et documents d'histoire médiévale, 12. ISBN 978-2-85944-945-2.
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This paper contains following book review: Bartholomaeus, C. Riggs, D. W. 2017. Transgender People and Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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This paper contains following book review: Alen, L. 2018. Sexuality Education and New Materialism. Queer Things. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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This paper contains following book review: Lamb, S., Gilbert, J. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Can meritocracy become a tyrant, an unjust ruler? Has it? Both answered in the affirmative, these are the central questions of Michael J. Sandel’s new book The Tyranny of Merit. In a meritocracy, the winners have earned their place, supposedly at least, and so have the losers. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a bit, it turns out. The winners come to suffer from hubris; the losers suffer humiliation. Sandel argues that more than anything else, this is the real venom that has poisoned public life in recent years. Quite apart from its wanting implementation, is meritocracy then even the right ideal by which to run our lives, our societies, our morality?
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The 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Brexit, and the rising support for authoritarian figures elsewhere have left politicians and commentators scrambling to understand where politics has gone wrong. These events have been widely interpreted as populist backlashes against rising inequalities, globalisation, immigration, and the elites. But there may be a deeper story that most commentators have missed. Michael J. Sandel argues that at the heart of this widespread popular discontent lie the social attitudes generated by the meritocratic discourse that politicians of all stripes have been pushing for the past four decades. Written in the gripping and accessible style that has become Sandel’s calling card, this book mounts a powerful case that Western democracies have gone wrong by putting merit at the centre of politics.
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While on the campaign trail for the election that would determine who would succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in Germany, Olaf Scholz, the leader of the Social Demo cratic Party expressed his conviction that ‘among certain professional classes, there is a meritocratic exuberance that has led people to believe their success is completely self-made. As a result, those who actually keep the show on the road don’t get the respect they deserve. That has to change’ [Oltermann 2021]. As it turned out, his words were heavily drawn from Michael Sandel’s new book The Tyranny of Merit. Sandel is no stranger to criticising how we tend to conflate market prices with value, not least of all because the monetary value markets ascribe through supply and demand is not always a good representation of worth [Sandel 2012]. In this new book, however, he takes the argument further and considers whether the pursuit of meritocracy has actually caused more harm than good, culminating in Brexit and the election of Trump, to the point that it might not be worth pursuing meritocracy at all from a justice standpoint.
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In The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel addresses social divides in Western society, especially the United States, and looks at how we could work better towards the common good and how this relates to meritocracy. The book offers an insightful and relevant take on the importance of social esteem in politics and showcases Sandel’s talent at addressing important issues in an approachable way. Sandel uses the introduction of the book to discuss the recent US college admissions scandal and highlights how it caused a wider debate.
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Review of the book: Nedbálková, Kateřina. Tichá dřina: dělnictví a třída v továrně Baťa. Vydání první. Praha: Display, 2021. 289 stran. ISBN 978-80-907883-1-2.
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Review of the book: Novotná, Hedvika, ed., Špaček, Ondřej, ed. a Šťovíčková, Magdaléna, ed. Metody výzkumu ve společenských vědách. Vydání první. Praha: FHS UK, 2019. 495 stran. ISBN 978-80-7571-025-3.
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Review of the book: Festinger, Leon, Riecken, Henry W. a Schachter, Stanley. Když se proroctví nesplní: studie skupiny, která předpověděla konec světa. Překlad Hana Antonínová. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2021. 294 stran. ISBN 978-80-262-1796-1.
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