Kopat do žuly motykou - Rozhovory s Michaelem Hauserem – Hauser Michael (2014)

The book of interviews with philosopher Michael Hauser addresses serious questions of our time, in which the contradictions of the current socioeconomic and cultural system are intensifying. The interviews, conducted between 2007 and 2014, testify to the difficult disruption of various forms of dogmatism and ideological narratives, according to which capitalism appears as the natural order of the social world and postmodernism represents the last chapter of cultural history. Attempts at radical criticism and the formulation of alternatives in the form of emancipatory projects (communism) are still perceived as dangerous and misguided, or as Don Quixote-like attempts to dig a hole in granite with a hoe. Although we are witnessing the gradual exhaustion of postmodern stimuli, the emergence of a new intellectual and cultural configuration has not yet occurred, and we do not see its clearer outlines or distinct concepts. Michael Hauser (born 1972) is a philosopher working at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of scholarly studies, essays, and political journalism. The central theme of his thinking is the philosophical critique of postmodernism and capitalism in the era of globalization, drawing inspiration from authors of the Frankfurt School, Fredric Jameson, and representatives of post-Marxism. He focuses on...