Contemporary Thought(23)

Poznámky k literatuře I

Notes to Literature contains texts written by Theodor Adorno mostly in the 1950s. These are essays that create new rules of literary crit...

Spinoza a politika

Étienne Balibar (1942), Louise Althusser’s student, is one of the most significant contemporary political thinkers. His book, Spinoza and...

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...

Pascalovské meditace

The book Pascal's Meditations (1997) is one of the most important theoretical works of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)...

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

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

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 ...

Poznávání života

French epistemology represents a distinctive line of thought within philosophy, represented primarily by Gaston Bachelard with his theory...

Smrt

Man knows that he must one day die and this awareness represents one of the main characteristics of humanity; the aim of religion, metaph...

Esej o konečnosti

Svědectví Paula Celana

Date comes down to marking itself as the one-and-only time: a hidden secret that is coming. If this is the case, a unique poetics is need...

Obrazy navzdory všemu

In August 1944, members of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando managed to secretly photograph the extermination process at the core of which the...

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...

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