Contemporary Thought(28)

Nová francouzská filosofie

A detailed, yet intentionally non-exhaustive insight into contemporary French philosophy presents the thought of seven authors – Jean-Luc...

Kdo tu mluvil o vítězství?

Traditional cultures have exercises which teach people discipline. Even modern philosophers, Hegel, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard paid specia...

Osm cvičení ve filosofické rezignaci

Potomnost

The central theme of this book, written by Gerhard Richter, a professor of German studies and comparative literature at Brown University,...

Figury následování v moderním myšlení a estetice

Estetika ambiguity

Remaining in ambiguity is at the root of how we experience art works. The ambiguity is inherent in the genre and content, in the movement...

Zrození kinematografického času

Up through the 19th century, time was viewed as a continuous stream, an element whose flow could not be influenced. The onset of the capi...

Modernita, nahodilost, archiv

Původ negativní dialektiky

This book by American philosopher Susan Buck-Morris traces the formation of the theory of Theodor Adorno, a key representative of the fir...

Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin a frankfurtský Institut pro sociální výzkum

Epistemologie estetična

The idea of a mutual methodological interrelation between research and art, which appeared towards the end of the past century, uncovers ...

Kotvy na nebesích

Rémi Brague leads us to reject the idea that modern man living in the "post-metaphysical" era, which is the cultural heritage of the Enli...

Metafyzická základna života

Ticho

When trying to perceive silence, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation – the harder we try to listen, the more intensive feeling w...

John Cage, filozofia absencií a skúsenosť ticha

Svoboda a neklid zvířecího života

The phenomenology of animality, whose basic points are presented in Florence Burgat’s book, does not strive for ethical solutions of the ...

Člověk v šíleném dění světa

Everyone who wants to systematically explore Gilles Deleuze’s work must come to terms with the fact that the continuity of his thinking i...

Filosofie Gillesa Deleuze

Filosofie en noir

Thinking necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact is becoming ever more clear, which might be th...