Contemporary Thought(18)

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

Urbánní situace

French philosopher and essayist Olivier Mongin presents a structured treatise on the contemporary meaning, in times of globalization, of ...

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 ...

Spinoza a politika

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

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

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

Poznávání života

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

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

Nová francouzská filosofie

Na rozhraních fenomenologie

Edmund Husserl defined a new philosophical theme: the field of experience. When Emmanuel Levinas speaks about Desire and the Other, to wh...

Transcendence, jevení a zkušenost

Mizení

While the center of interest of the European philosophical tradition is primarily concerned with the appearance of things, theory and phi...

Fenomény, mediální praktiky a techniky na prahu zjevného