Karel Hrubý – spiritus agens politického a kulturního zápasu

The article portraits Karel Hrubý as an engaged thinker, intellec-tual and a politician, who by his theory and praxis had respond-ed to the key events of Czechoslovak history of the second half of the 20th century. Hrubý´s political and cultural endeavour for so-cial and humane politics and his reflections on totalitarianism of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia represent a car-dinal idea of the paper. Hrubý is introduced as a pivotal figure of Czechoslovak exile. This text reminds us of major thinkers, who oriented Karel Hrubý on the way of culturally and politically deter-mined politics, and is further dedicated to polemics against repre-sentatives of a revisionist concept of modern history.