Modernity and the feeling of social crisis. Masaryk, Bráf, Bakule

Abstract

This study is composed of following parts:

1. Inaugural comment.

2. Existential realist T. G. Masaryk (1850 -

1937).

3. Old Czech misbeliever Albín Bráf (1851 -

1912).

4. Brooding modernist František Karel Bakule (1861 -

1941).

5. Some words as conclusion. Author considers in this study Masaryk, professor of philosophy and sociology on Prague university, Bráf, founder of the modern Czech economical school and Bakule, now half-forgotten Czech writer, to be the most typical Czech thinkers, who were intellectually interested in the debates about crises of the modern society before

1914.

Keywords

• social crises
• Czech society
• before 1914 time period