Karel Hrubý - vii Introduction // 1. Philosophical and Religious Views // Jan Patočka - 1 An Attempt at a Czech National Philosophy and Its Failure // Milič Čapek - 23 The Presence of Masaryk’s Thought // Erazim Kohák - 37 To Live in Truth: Reflections on the Moral Sense of Masaryk’s Humanism // Roman Jakobson - 63 Problems of Language in Masaryk’s Writings // Jan Milič Lochman - 83 Emanuel Rádl: In Masaryk’s Footsteps // II. Meaning of History // Václav Černý - 99 The Essence of Masaryk’s Personality and What TGM Means to Us Today // Karel Hrubý - 119 The Philosophical Roots of Masaryk ’s Political Outlook // George J. Kovtun - 139 Thomas G. Masaryk’s Road to Revolution // René Wellek - 157 T G. Masaryk on the Meaning of Czech History // 2. Sociological and Political Problems // Jaroslav Krejčí - 173 Masaryk and Revolution: A Humanist, His Sociology and Politics in the Light of History // Antonie van den Beld - 191 Masaryk’s Morality of Humanity and the Problem of Political Violence // Branislav Štefánek - 203 Masaryk and Slovakia // Roman Szporluk - 219 Masaryk’s Republic: Nationalism with a Human Face // Miroslav Novák - 241 Some Thoughts on Masaryk’s Critique of Marxism // Jiří Voskovec - 257 TGM and Culture in the First Republic // Appendix // C.P. - 263 On the Periodization of Czech History // Milič Čapek 276 Concluding Remarks