The book published for the 175th anniversary of Thomas G. Masaryk´s birth refers to his works of thought and also the bestselling book by a Polish-American historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, The Twilight of Democracy. The author of this book has expanded the subject matter into historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological contexts. In order for humanity to cope with its present situation, democracy must prevail, and in his view, after modernism and postmodernism, it is neomodernism based on critical-realistic thinking and morality that must take over. Social philosophy should be partly changed, sociology and political science should form a new discipline of socio-therapy, following the example of psychology and psychiatry, and pedagogy and macroeconomics should be fully integrated into other social disciplines. Agnosticism ought to be promoted in religious beliefs, ecology in politics and a centre-left orientation should prevail, preventing excessive differences in wealth between people and countries. This is a lucid, readably written and multifaceted groundbreaking work of potentially far-reaching significance. Its author was the first in the Czech Republic to understand Masaryk as a polymath who created an uncontroversial, universally and timelessly valid ideological system that today is only lacking in environmentalism. As Alain Soubigou, a leading French historian, has put it, ”the only relevant question is whether the life, views and actions of this 'philosopher on the throne' were somehow logically coherent from the beginning to the end - regardless of the contingency of historical events – if not directly forming a unity. All previous studies on Masaryk have failed on that synthesis”. Moreover, the author of this book was the first in the world to present a project of secular neo-modernism and a new faith in democracy.
