Andrej Sirácky

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Andrej Sirácky (born December 9, 1900 in Bački Petrovac , † September 29, 1988 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak and Czechoslovak philosopher and sociologist who came from Vojvodina (now Serbia ).

Life

After dropping his Abitur in 1921 in Vrbas he reported to the Charles University in Prague and received his doctorate there in 1926 to Dr. phil. From 1925 to 1941 he taught at the Slovak grammar school in Bački Petrovac. 1943-1944 he participated as a member of the Slovak-Serbian partisan group Novosadský partizánsky oddiel in the resistance against the German occupation of Vojvodina. After 1949 he was professor at the Comenius University in Bratislava and its rector from 1953 to 1956, from 1955 to 1961 president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and from 1975 to 1978 director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.

After his return to Czechoslovakia (1948), his theoretical identification with the contemporary totalitarian ideology of the era led to attitudes of militant Marxist dogmatism in the 1950s and found expression in his uncompromising criticism and rejection of sociology as a “bourgeois” science. Due to his real position in society, the high educational, scientific and organizational leadership positions that he held during this time, Sirácky not only remained academically theorizing in his attitude, but also made a significant contribution to the development of sociology in Slovakia as scientific Temporarily freeze discipline. Only later, in the 1960s, did he take part in the rebirth of sociology in Czechoslovakia.

Political activity

While studying in Prague, he met some left-wing students from Slovakia, with whom he founded the Free Association of Slovak Socialist Students ( Voľné združenie študentov socialistov zo Slovenska ); In 1924, the DAV magazine was formed from this group , of which Sirácky was a co-founder. During this time he wrote for the magazines Mladé Slovensko , Spartakus , Pravda chudoby and Svit , of which he was partly editor.

Party member from 1952, Sirácky 1971–1976 was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia and a member of the National Council and member of its executive committee (1960–1964).

reception

Because of his changing theoretical and political identification (avant-garde, Marxist-oriented engagement in DAV, turning away from it in the 1950s, his turning point in the later 1960s), contradicting, controversial assessments of Sirácky's importance can be found. Despite the criticism of his rather negative role during the 1950s, his endeavors to establish a sociology in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, especially during the Prague Spring 1967/1968, received very positive appreciation.

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Sirácky was a representative of Marxist-Leninist philosophy and sociology in Czechoslovakia in his later days. He published, among other things, on historical materialism and ethics and dealt critically with the bourgeois concept of humanism and bourgeois philosophical anthropology.

Selection of his works:

  • Sila slov a myšlienok ( power of words and ideas ). Petrovac, 1943
  • Umierajúca civilizácia ( The Dying Civilization ). Petrovac, 1946
  • Kultúra a mravnost '( culture and morals ). Bratislava, 1949.
  • Klérofašistická ideólogia ľudáctva. Bratislava, 1955.
  • Sociológia a intergrácia vied ( Sociology and the integration of the sciences ). Bratislava, 1968
  • Sociálny svet človeka ( The human social world ). Bratislava, 1974.

literature

  • Václav Tomek: Sirácky, Andrej . In: Philosophenlexikon by an author collective ed. by Erhard Lange and Dietrich Alexander . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 852-853 Bibliography, p. 853.
  • Petr Jemelka : Reflexe civilizační krize (A. Sirácky) . In: Lalíková, E. - Kostelník, Š. Filozofa a slovanské myšlienkové dedičstvo. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: IRIS, 2008. ISBN 978-80-89256-19-8 , pp. 323-330. 2008, Smolenice.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jana Sviceková: Kto bol Andrej Sirácky? , Slovo portal, December 10, 1914, online at: noveslovo.sk / ...
  2. ↑ a b kk: Andrej Sirácky , online at: phil.muni.cz / ...
  3. ↑ a b Andrej Sirácky , short résumé of the portal Literárne informačné centrum, online at litcentrum.sk / ...
  4. ↑ 75 rokov XIV. VÚSB , in: Kulpin.net, portal of the Slovaks in Vojvodina, July 23, 2019, online at: kulpin.net / ...
  5. ↑ a b Antonín Vanek: Andrej Sirácky petaosmdesátiletý , in: Sociologický Casopis / Czech Sociological Review 6/1985, p. 670ff., Online at:. JSTOR 41130093

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personal data
SURNAME Sirácky, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Backi Petrovac
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1988
Place of death Bratislava