Sound Mind in Sound Body. On the Joy of a Fulfilled and Healthy Life in the Czech Anarchist Periodicals of the Late 19th Century
Abstract
feature of Czech anarchism of the late 19th century. We find here frequent thematic references to force, health and a natural, morally unburdened attitude to life and sexuality.
The analyse covers texts that have appeared in Czech anarchist periodicals of the 1890s and 1900s, in particular in Omladina, Nový kult, Volné listy and Volný duch, including not only fiction but also essays or technical texts, both original and in translation. The enthusiasm regarding body and corporeal health is then situated within its culturally social setting, and its sources are traced.
The manner in which these topics are presented in the anarchist periodicals is influenced, at the very least, from two sides: by a specifically colored reception of the philosophies of F. Nietzsche and M.
Stirner, and by the contemporary scientific view of healthy human body.