This dissertation is based on a socio-cultural and social-anthropological approach to religion which (among other things) says that religion is dependent on the society in which it occurs. The ambition of the dissertation is not to capture "official positions" of the Catholic Church about the role of women in modern society. The dissertation is focusing on the perspective of Catholic women themselves. My main aim is to observe the opinion Catholic women have about themselves, and whether they reflect social or modernization changes. I will also observe, how they negotiated their role within the Czech political Catholicism. Time specification includes the end of the nineteenth century when women got more opportunities in the public sphere. As well as the period of independent Czechoslovakia and its constitution which declared the equal status of men and women.

This dissertation is based on a socio-cultural and social-anthropological approach to religion which (among other things) says that religion is dependent on the society in which it occurs. The ambition of the dissertation is not to capture "official positions" of the Catholic Church about the role of women in modern society. The dissertation is focusing on the perspective of Catholic women themselves. My main aim is to observe the opinion Catholic women have about themselves, and whether they reflect social or modernization changes. I will also observe, how they negotiated their role within the Czech political Catholicism. Time specification includes the end of the nineteenth century when women got more opportunities in the public sphere. As well as the period of independent Czechoslovakia and its constitution which declared the equal status of men and women.

Diese Arbeit trägt mit ihrem speziellen Interesse für die Organologiemetapher als diskursprägende sprachliche Form eine neue Fragestellung an die Ideenwelt der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts heran. Untersucht wird, inwieweit die Gleichsetzung von Staat und Gesellschaft mit einem lebenden Körper als Ausdruck eines kollektiv geteilten Weltmodells zu verstehen ist, das das politische Denken der beginnenden Moderne prägte und kanalisierte. Wie die in dieser Arbeit durchgeführte synchrone Diskursanalyse zentraler Grundlagentexte der sechs maßgeblichen politischen Bewegungen des Vormärz - des Kommunismus, der demokratischen Bewegung, des Liberalismus, der Frauenbewegung, des Konservativismus und des politischen Katholizismus - zeigt, ist dies eindeutig der Fall: Mit Hilfe der demiurgischen Kraft der Organologiemetapher werden Welt, Staat und Gesellschaft in sämtlichen politischen Philosophien so entworfen, dass sie als Organismen erscheinen, die durch weitgehend unbeeinflussbare Natur-Triebe in ihrer Entwicklung vorangetrieben werden. Ebenso wird der Aufbau von Staat und Gesellschaft von allen nach dem Vorbild eines Organismus modelliert, in dem sich Teil und Ganzes wechselseitig bedingen. Auch die Positionierung von Mann und Frau im Kollektivkörper wird auf Erkenntnisse der Naturlehre, speziell auf in den Geschlechtern wirkende Natur-Kräfte, zurückgeführt. In dieser Arbeit werden zuerst diese Diskursgemeinsamkeiten vorgestellt, die auf eine grundlegende Mentalität der beginnenden Moderne schließen lassen. Anschließend werden die einzelnen Diskursvarianten und ihre Implikationen - nach den politischen Bewegungen geordnet - detailliert dargestellt. / With its specific interest in the organology metaphor this study creates a new way of understanding political ideas of the first half of the 19th century. It points out that the comparision of state and society with a living body is not only a stylistic pattern but a collectively shared fundamental mentality that influenced the political philosophy of the beginning modern age. This is shown by a synchronic analysis of essential and fundamental texts of the six important political movements of the first half of the 19th century - Communism, the democratic and the women''s movement, Liberalism, Conservatism and the political Catholicism. All political philosophies use the demiurgic power of the organology metaphor to design world, state and society in a way that they appear as organisms, which are propelled in their development by hardly influencable natural powers. Likewise all philosophies mould the organisation of state and society according to the pattern of a living organism, in which the whole body and its parts mutually depend on each other. By supposing different natural forces working in men and women also the sexes are positioned differently in the collective body. This study first presents these common uses of the organology metaphor through all political movements and the fundamental mentality of the beginning modern age shown by these. After that it focusses on the specific uses of the organology metaphor and their implications in each text.

The thesis Political Programmes of the Czech Representation in the Second Halve of the 19th Century focuses on both programme documents and actual work of Czech political parties, whether more or less institutionalized, between the years 1848 (March Revolution) and 1918 (the downfall of Austria-Hungary). At first it summarizes the historical development in the respective period (Chapter 1), next, it analyses programmes of political parties in three broadly defined topics: 1) Organisation of the empire, question of the Czech State Right (Chapter 2); 2) Constitutionalism, civil rights and role of a citizen (Chapter 3) and 3) National matters (Chapter 4). The attitudes about each of these areas of the following political parties are defined: Bohemian nobility, National Party (till 1874) or Old Czechs (since then), Young Czechs, Social Democrats, Agrarians, Catholic parties, National Socialists, Progress parties and parties of the Radical State Right, Realists and Anarchists. For the conclusion, the author of the thesis attempts to characterise and evaluating the Czech political representation, as well as its importance for the development since 1918.