COMENIUS – VOL. 3 NUMBER 1 – 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOL. 3 NUMBER 1

  • I. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
  • II. CULTURE AND POLITICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    • Jan Patočka, Milan Kundera, and Václav Havel: Effect of the Prague Spring by Zdeněk V. David 9 Emigration as an “Added Value”: The Example of the Work of Jan Novák and of Miloš Forman by Joanna Czaplińska 27 American High School Systems in the Views of Czech Pedagogues by Ilona Moravcová (Ďatko) 35 Culture and Education at the Refugee Camp Valka (1949–1950) by Sylva Šimsová 55 The Humanities in Exile by Vladimír Papoušek 67
  • III. TRANSATLANTIC TIES
    • “King Jagiello”:The Monument to the Polish King in New York’s Central Park by Marceli Kosman 77 The American Dream in “Czech” Chicago: August Geringer’s Publishing Activities by Lenka Procházková – Jaroslav Kříž 81 Václav Hlavatý – World-Famous Czechoslovak Mathematician and the First President of SVU by Martin Nekola 97 Major General Oldřich Španiel: The Unofficial Czechoslovak Military Attaché in the United States (1939–1941) by Tomáš Jiránek 109
  • IV. CHEMISTRY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    • Challenges in Amorphous Chalcogenide Materials Research by Jiří Málek 125 Nucleotide Analogues as Life-Saving Drugs by Marcela Krečmerová 135
  • V. BOOK REVIEWS
    • Ulrich BECK, Das deutsche Europa. Neue Machtlandschaften im Zeichen der Krise [German Europe: New Regions of Power marked by the Crisis] by Jaroslav Pánek 145 Alain BADIOU and Marcel GAUCHET, What is to be done? A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy by Francis D. Raška 151 Aleš NOVÁČEK, Dualita Evropy: historickogeografická analýza [The Duality of Europe: A Historico-Geographical Analysis] by Jaroslav Pánek 156 Jan CEBE, Spolkový život českých novinářů v letech 1945-1948, [The Associational Life of Czech Journalists (1945-1948)] by Francis D. Raška 158