Page 159 - Studia Universitatis Hereditati, vol 13(1) (2025)

– Kdor bo Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české were published only as printed editions. They are
ali Čornejevega Žižko želel ali potreboval – in free of the anomalies and lower quality that of-
slednjih je bilo doslej nekaj deset tisoč –, bo, kot ten accompany the enforcement – sometimes bu-
trajno funkcionira knjižni trg vse od Gutenber- reaucratically imposed – of the latest ‘scientific
ga, izkazal spoštovanje avtorjem in založbi. Zato creed’, a construct that in Slovenia is a mish-
si bo knjige – kupil. Ali pa si jih izposodil v knji- mash of different, inconsistent ideas and activi-
žnici. Celo v Sloveniji. ties masquerading under the grandiose label of
‘open science’. 10
Čornejev Žižka: češka (ne več) konfliktna Those who want or need Velké dějiny zemí
kulturna in mentalna dediščina Koruny české or Čornej’s Žižka – and tens of
Zgodovinska podoba in njena historiografs- thousands have – will, as the book market has
ka ubeseditev vojščaka Jana Žižke sta stolet- operated since Gutenberg, show respect to the
ni nevralgični točki češke nacionalne identitete authors and publisher by buying the books or 159
in mentalni izziv ter duhovnozgodovinski dolg borrowing them from a library, even in Slovenia.
češke historiografije. Zagonetni sta ravno toliko,
kot je v noveli V gozdu Ryunosukeja Akutugave Čornej’s Žižka: Czech (No Longer) Conflicted
zagatno vprašanje, kako je preminil samuraj, Cultural and Mental Legacy
torej zagonetka, bolj znana po znameniti insce- For centuries, the historical personage of Jan
naciji v filmu Rašomon Akira Kurosave (1950). Žižka and his historiographical representa-
Kot v literarnem in filmskem narativu nič tion have been neuralgic points of Czech na-
zares jasno ne razkriva, kdo da je pokončal ja- tional identity, creating a mental struggle and a
ponskega bojevnika, tudi češka historiografi- spiritual-historical debt for Czech historiogra-
ja od 19. stoletja do monografije Petra Čorneja phy. More famously examined in Akira Kuro-
niha med dvema ekstremoma, ki jima je doba ko- sawa’s Rashomon (1950), they are as mysterious
munističnega totalitarnega družbenega eksperi- as the question in Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s In a
menta po letu 1948 vtisnila še dodatno mental- Grove about how the samurai died.
no komponento.
Palacký 10 At least in the Republic of Slovenia, ‘open science’ seems
mostly a ‘top-down’ government-bureaucratic initiative Niti črno niti belo, temveč barvito! • Not Black or White, but Vibrantly Coloured!
Oče češke historiografije v dobi »meščanov in still in its early stage. Researchers – those of us who, with
revolucij«, František Palacký, je Žižko v svojih our own mental energy and creativity, keep the whole ‘fly-
impresivnih Dějinách Národu Českého okarak- ing circus’ of academia in motion – have not been con-
sulted in the least, nor in any meaningful way, about the
teriziral z naslednjimi besedami (1986, 361–362): merits or purpose of this so-called ‘open science’. Further-
more, whether at home or abroad, the present state of sci-
Žižko [smo] upodobili kot fanatika – vernos- entific communication provides no hint at all of where
ti. Ta izraz je imel tedaj nekoliko širši pomen, this path might lead: towards a universal vulgarisation of
kot ga ima danes, in se ni nanašal predvsem everything, including science itself, with a woke, mandato-
ry inclusion of all societal groups – especially the ‘down-
na primerna dela, temveč na premišljanje in trodden and insulted’, that is, marginalised social struc-
verjetje vsega, kar je zapisano v Božjem zako- tures – in its practice; or whether it will manage to pre-
serve at least the outward semblance of intellectual excel-
nu. Kot je pri ljudeh v navadi, da vsak edino lence, which, throughout the history of science, has been
svojo vero šteje za pravo in zveličavno, v tem taken for granted precisely because of the complexity and
rigour of cognition, the very conditio sine qua non of sci-
pogledu se tudi Žižka ni razlikoval od teda- ence itself.
njih ljudi, takisto ni mislil, da bi bil lahko One could argue that only chaos theory could start to pro-
plemenit kdorkoli, kdor bi ne imel zveličav- vide a remotely acceptable explanation of what, under the
supposed shared ‘semantic umbrella’, phenomena like cit-
ne vere. Ni bil naklonjen zgolj vnanjemu iz- izen science and diamond open access to publications –
kazovanju verskega čuta, temveč odločnosti funded mostly by taxpayer money – have in common, or
how citizen science fits with the assessment of research
v Bogu ljubih dejanjih: hotel je vernost, ne work outside the traditionally imposed metrics.