Ondřej Holub, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Biography

Ondřej Holub currently holds the position of a junior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague, where  he is conducting his research in the department for the analyses of “Knowledge, culture, and expertise.” His interest targets mainly the transnational and intellectual history of the European Left, the history of socialist thought, and the history of the idea of socialism. He now focuses mostly on the topic of Czech National Socialism and its origin and development in a transnational and global context, but his previous works was also dedicated to the origin and role of reform communist movement in the area of Central Europe or to the phenomenon of left catholicism in Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Visiting Fellowship January 2025

Motivation:

During my one-month stay at INZ, I intend to explore the local archival funds and library sources to define the role of Czech national socialists in organizing the Slovene national socialist movement prior to the Great War, as well as the transnational and intellectual connection between the Czech National Socialist Party and the Slovene National Socialist Party during the early 1920s. To achieve such an intention, I plan to use the kind institutional support of INZ, and I am looking forward for developing our future cooperation.

List of publications:

HOLUB, Ondřej. Czech Intellectual Jiří Němec and Austrian-left Catholicism Thought, Forum Historiae, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (2023), pp. 28-39.

HOLUB, Ondřej. Marxist Eschatology and the Tendencies of Human Sciences in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia, Historie-Otázky-Problémy, Vol. 15, Issue 1/2023, pp. 72–84.

HOLUB, Ondřej. Looking for the Sixth Sense of Marxist Philosophy: The Intellectual Development of Rudolf Šíma as a Reflection of the Potential and Limits of Czechoslovak Marxist Humanism in the 1960s. Kontradikce/Contradictions, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 45-68.

HOLUB, Ondřej. Seeking for the Universe in the Bipolar World. The Genesis, the Purpose and the Boundaries of the Technocratic Policy of Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus in the 1960. Střed/Centre, Vol 12, Issue 2/2020, pp. 70–97.

HOLUB, Ondřej. „To Live not by the Bomb, but by Reason“: The Legal Philosophy of René Marcic and the Marxist Humanism of Ernst Fischer as a Confrontation between Two Perspectives on Civil Society in the Era of Chancellor Josef Klaus (1964–1970). Kontradikce/Contradictions, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2019), pp. 13–35

HOLUB, Ondřej. Emanuel Famíra – the Man who was not longing for the Spring. The Portrait of an Orthodox Communist. Soudobé dějiny, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 279–324.