Miloslav Ransdorf

Miloslav Ransdorf (* February 15, 1953 in Rakovníka ) is a Czech communist politician, philosopher and member of the European Parliament.

Life

In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, in which he held until 1984 lectures on ancient and medieval philosophy. In 1978 he was awarded for work Politické teorie Rané renesance a reformace the degree of PhDr .. It was followed by 1990 research at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in the fields of philosophy, history and theory of social development as well as the prognostic Institute at the drafting of economic and social reforms.

1990-1992 he was elected deputies of the Federal Assembly. After the assembly was dissolved, he works as head of the theoretical - analytical Committee of the Communist Party. From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, 2002-2004 Member of the European Commission for Integration and Deputy Chairman of the GUE / NGL Group.

Ransdorf is Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees EU -Kazakhstan, EU -Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and substitute member of the Committee on Development.

Creation

Ransdorf published a number of books and translations. About Czech history but also the development of society in the 20th century. His scientific work can be thereby classified into two categories: history of philosophy and ideology. In his work Kapitoly z geneze Hussite ideology he analyzed on the basis of manuscripts and source books Philosophical and theological thought of the Reformers John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Jakoubek ze Stříbra and Jan Želivský.

With the Reformation, he deals in the books Chebský soudce a reformační dějinné myšlení, Vztah Prahy a Tábora v Badani o Jakoubkovi ze Stříbra and Mistr Jan Hus. The 1989 Z myšlenkového světa reformace published book is dedicated to Calvinism, Puritanism and Lutherismus and Ransdorf interested here in the context of socio-critical and rational ideological ideas of the modern era. In the study Hledali spravedlivější svět he explores the ideology of modern revolutions and their impact on the development of human rights. He is engaged in, among others, Erasmus and Luther, as well as Jefferson and Madison.

In Nové čtení Marxe, the second part will appear in 2007, he analyzed the categorized world of ideas of Karl Marx, using it to monitor not only the dynamics of capitalism but also reasons for the failure of the Soviet experiment in chronological order, from Lenin to Gorbachev.

The history of the ancient world and the beginning of Christianity, he studied in Pojetí času u kappadockých otců, which examined the temporal ideas and the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus.

He translated books from the German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch language.

Works

  • Kapitoly z geneze Hussite ideology, Praha 1986
  • Zdeněk Nejedlý, Praha 1988
  • Z myšlenkového světa reformace, Praha 1989
  • The Roots of American Political Culture, Praha 1989 (co-author Vladimira Dvorakova )
  • Mistr Jan Hus, Praha 1993
  • Muž velké Touhy. Comenius proti proudu Dejin, Praha 1995
  • Nové čtení Marxe I., Praha 1996
  • Čechem volbou. Militantní racionalista Kurt Konrad, Praha 1997
  • Bezpečný domov, otevřený svět, Praha 1998
  • Muž svědomí. Ernesto Che Guevara, Praha 2000
  • Hledali spravedlivější svět. O revolučním původu teorie lidských Prav, Praha 2001
  • Nového čtení Marxe, Part 2
  • Chebský soudce a reformační dějinné myšlení
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