T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914

In this study, Gordon Skilling deals with Masaryk's pre-1914 career as a professor and permanent dissenter. Thomas G. Masaryk was a living combination of ideas and actions. As a philosopher he inspired practical work; as a politician he encouraged thinking. This duality, with its considerable impact on Czech and Central European developments, is aptly described and interpreted in Skilling's essays.

For thirty years Masaryk was a constant and unrelenting critic of conventional wisdom, establi...