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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hall, John A

Titel

A Singular Contribution

Ist Teil von

• Sociologický časopis, 2012-01, Vol.48 (6), p.1169-1170

Ort / Verlag

Prague: AV ČR Czech Academy of Sciences - Institute of Sociology

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library - Freely accessible e-journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The author knows a little about Jiri Musil through his close connection to Ernest Gellner, about whose life and work he has written (Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography, Verso, London, 2010). They had a good deal in common: their background was in the Jewish community, though this was less a matter of positive allegiance than of impositions placed upon them. Gellner had escaped in 1939, although he returned for six months in 1945-1946. Musil had stayed, ending up in the camps. On his return to Prague he went to see the home of the woman with whom he had been in love, certain that she was dead as she had been sent to Terezin. She had survived, and suddenly opened the window at which he was staring. They married, and she became a distinguished French translator. Musil was one of Gellner's key sources in the latter's attempt to understand the nature of actually existing socialism.