Pokušení neviditelného - Myšlení moderny – Papoušek Vladimír (2019)

The aim of the collective monograph Temptation of the Invisible: Thinking of Modernity is not to provide a comprehensive report on all movements of thought among modernists, but to highlight selected cases of the transformation of this thinking, its transformation, or possible collapse. The individual studies primarily cover the period of the first half of the twentieth century, where these radical changes are most visible. The introductory study focuses on one of the "crisis states" of modernity and the (drastic) process of modernization at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, known as the crisis of language. It turns to Czech thinking about literature in the first half of the 20th century and its transformations or to texts from the Prague functional-structuralist focal point of the classical period, which are analyzed using computational tools. Other studies address the relationships between fantasy and reality in interwar texts by Czech prose writers, the transformations of Karel Teige's thinking, the dynamization of the concept of image, or reflections on socialist art in the Czech cultural environment of the late 1930s. The concluding studies focus on the thinking of authors at the end of modernity, on doubts about modernity evident in their texts, and on attempts to find exits and new possibilities.