The Conception of Non-Political Politics in the Work of Ladislav Hejdanek

This study presents Ladislav Hejdanek's conception of non-political politics. It attempts to systematize Hejdanek's unsystematic contributions to the subject. The overall conception can be based not on anti-politics, but on the mutual struggle against a) the expansion of politics into the sphere of the non-political, and b) the political's abandonment of its bonds with the non-political sphere. With this ambiguity is linked the characterization of non-political politics - as, on the one hand, a form of education and of the transformation of consciousness, and on the other hand as only "mediating," overseeing activity along the lines of the transport police. This duality also reflects the twofold nature of power politics - the correct (here it is necessary to educate) and the incorrect (here it is necessary, above all, to oversee) - and of the presence of the politics of interest in power politics. Another specific property of Hejdanek's non-political politics stems from its democratic character which is here, however, above all an inner activity based in Christianity.