Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020
Abstract
The paper aims to show the structural foundations on which Jaroslav Průšek (1906-1980) and Vlasta Hilská (1909-1968) built up the Prague School of Japanese Scholars in post-war Czechoslovakia, and to interpret the founding myth associated with this process. The paper surveys the scientific school as an influence structure interacting with the field of power and providing scientific infrastructure for the transfer of technologies from Japan to Czechoslovakia, thus strengthening its legitimising pillars and influencing the management of Czechoslovak science.