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Modern psychanutics includes experimental and theoretical approaches to the use of psychoactive substances. It is related to import, manufacture and study of psychoactives in western culture from the end of the 18th century till today. Beginnings of theoretical psychonautics start around the half of the 19th century and continue in several distinct phases until the contemporary psychedelic rennaissance. Each of these phases is connected with different substances: opium and hashish, nitrous oxide and mescalin, psilocybin and LDS, etc. The use and reflection of such substances is closely connected with the development of modern art and literature, but it is also connected with science, especially with psychology, psychiatry, philosophy or anthropology. In this context, psychonautics emerged as a specific genre between science, literature and art. The lecture will present some key moments, works and personalities of psychonautic research and will reflect on the relation between drug experiment and modern culture. |
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"It is the reason why we chose civil disobedience. To push state institution to tell us what values, aims and grounds are their decisions based on. We want to know what will happen to the property of the city we live in. Everyone should have the right to participate in the city's development." The source: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/klinika-obsazeni-vyklizeni-praha-zizkov-ort.A190110_172911_domaci_ble |
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The discussion will concern the thin line between normality and mental illness, and reflect on the changing paradigm for difficult mental states and the care of those who suffer from these states. Guests: Hosted by: |
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| Geoffrey Dierckxsens presented at the annual conference of The Society for Ricoeur studies
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Imagination, Fallibility and Moral Narratives |
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The MORAL LIFE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS |
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Petr Urban will hold a lecture
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ETHICAL CULTURE
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on the problem of ethical culture in public institutions at the Theological Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.
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University, Emigration,Terezín |
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The Week of Science and technology of the Academy of Sciences CR 2018presents on November 5th 2018Hynek Janoušek's lectureUniversity, Emigration, Terezín.
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CROSSING OVER
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Video recording of the Vít Pokorný's lecture at the international conference Beyond Psychedelics 2018 held in Prague, in June 2018. |
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Institute of Philosophy organized a conference concerning the development of ethical culture in public and state services. The conference hosted the leading scientific authorities in the field of corruption and service ethics research. A short conference review in czech can be found here. The conference was part of the research project awarded by the Czech Technological Agency. whose principal investigator is Peter Urban. |
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Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)
Workshop to commemorate
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J. Bierhanzl's lecture on the topic of his new bookWeak action: from ethics to politics
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| THE WORLD AND THE REAL |
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presents the international conference organized by the Central European Institute of Philosophy |
TO THINK THE INTERTWINING |
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presents on 12. 06. 2018 in the Municipal Library of Prague the lecture on the History of Modern Psychonautics
Annotation: Modern psychonautics is an experimental and theoretical endeavor connected to the use of psychoactive substances. It is closely related to the import, production, and study of these substances in the West, starting in the 19th century until the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. Each phase of its history connects with different substance: with opium and hashish, nitroux oxide, cocaine, and mescaline, or psilocybin and LSDj. Use and the subsequent reflexion of these substances are intimately related with the development of modern art and literature since the times of romantic poets. But it has also penetrated social sciences, such as psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, or philosophy. Writing about drugs has developed into a specific genre at the boundaries of science, art, and literature. This lecture will introduce the basic phases of psychonautics, its main characters, and works, and will reflect on the relation between modern culture and drug experimentation. |
NDTALKS: SOCIETY, VALUES, MANIPULATION |
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presents and hosts on 05. 06. 2018 a public discussion in the National Theatre in Prague on Society, values, and manipuation Anotation: In his last book, Timothy Snyders proposes several simple steps how to resist manipulation in politics.
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| 14th BRATISLAVA PHILOSOPHICAL DAYS |
Historicity of Man?
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Member of the Department of P. Kouba, M. Nitsche, J. Bierhanzl, J. Ort a V. Pokorný presented their lectures at the 14. Annual Bratislava Philosophical Days organized by the Philosophical Institute ústavom of the SAS in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the AS of CR and PROGRAM of the Conference: |
PSYCHEDELIC LESSONS 2018 |
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Vít Pokorný presented the lecture Notes on the History of Modern Psychonautics at the international conference organized by the |
| 200 YEARS OF KARL MARX |
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presented their lectures Marx's Ontology of the Sensual and Marx's Non-identical concept of Nature at the conference organized by the |
| H. JANOUŠEK at the CFS COPENHAGEN |
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is the Fellow Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen between the May and October of 2018 |
KNOWLEDGE, NESCIENCE, AND THE NEW MEDIA |
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Martin Nitsche presented the lecture Mediation and Interface: Social Media as Locations in Transitive-Topological Sphere organized by the International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science.
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| ONE DAY WITH PHILOSOPHY |
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on 05.04. 2018 the lecture during the project week at the Lyceum in Most
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| ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCEPT OF INTENTIONALITY |
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The Birth of Husserl's concept of intentionality at the workshop called Husserl's legacy organized by the Center for the Phenomenological Research in cooperation with the |
| DIMENSIONS OF VULNERABLITY |
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On the Problem of Weak Action: Arendt, Levinas, and Butler at the conference organized by the Institüt für Philosophiie, Universität Wien
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| WPSA MEETTING 2018 |
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IMAGE, PHENOMENON, AND IMAGINATION IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE |
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Call for Papers
for the 1st biennial congress
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CARING DEMOCRACY: CURRENT TOPICS |
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TOTALITY IS UNTRUTH |
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Martin Ritter presented a lecture: Totality is untruth: on Adorno's interpretation of Hegel in the Hegelian workshop What is real, is rationalorganized by the research groupHegel in interdisciplinary perspective in cooperation with the Philosophical Association Praxis. |
| MEMORY IN AUTOBIOGRAFIC TEXT |
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Josef Fulka will have a lecture on the problem of memory John Locke ones defined human identity by the ability to intentionally remember the past. There is, though, another type of memory whose inquiry relates more to literature than to philosophy ( it became the main principle of Marcel Proust's novelist aesthetics): involuntary memory or affective memory in the broadest sense). We will examine three authors who, each in his own way, contributed to our comprehension of this type of memory: J. J. Rousseau, M. Leirise, and B. Hrabal. We will emphasize that writing about oneself as practised by these authors does aim not only at finding a memory of immediate past, but also at uncovering one's identity in the strong sense. All three authors are thus part of the tradition that M. Foucalt in his late seminars called by the ancient term parrhésia.
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| PSYCHEDELICS AND EVERYDAYNESS |
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presented the lecture on psychedelics and everydayness at the Library of K. H. Mácha in Litoměřice Annotation: |
COMPLEXITY OF POWER
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ECONOMY AND ONTOLOGY: THE MYSTERY OF POWER IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF GIORGIO AGAMBEN |
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Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy Economy and Ontology: The Mystery of Power in the Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben by Lasha Matiashvili from the Tbilisi State University in Georgia. Lecture and discussion takes place on Monday, March, 19th Working language is English |
PHENOMENOLOGY OF ACTION AND VOLITION WORKSHOP |
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| 3rd of March, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Academic Conference Centre of the Institute of Philosophy Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1 organized by Nouvelle École Lacanienne / New Lacanian School and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - The Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
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On the 16th of February, In the workshop, we will read text from the field of critical social theory, or critical feminist theory of race. We will also watch movies and analyse social media in an attempt to understand the nature of intercultural communication strategies. |
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The event takes place in the conference room of the Institute of Philosophy, on the first floor at the addresse Jilská 1. Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
NDTALKS: The National theatre and cultural heritage today
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20. 02. 2018Host: Alice Koubová |
Participants: Yvona Kreuzmannová, Marta Ljubková, Jolana Matějková, Ondřej LánskýThe National Theatre: a guardian of the Czech national heritage and a sovereign space for free artistic production: is it an unattainable paradox or a promising provocation? How to achieve such unity in contemporary political and social situation? How do we understand our cultural heritage today? What part of our heritage should be adopted, actualized, made apparent, or reinterpreted by art? What kind of historical memory induces emotional response, gurgling and fermenting in us? How to cultivate these emotions in art? How to think about them? Which things in our past influence us to such extent that it is better to neutralize their implicit power? Do we need a national self-assurance in the form of identical repetition of the past? Do we need to disrupt our cultural stereotypes and transform through art? What do we get and what do we lose? What kind of future are we going to create? You are cordially invited to participate in the evening discussions with professionals in the field who won’t take over but rather initiate a common debate on these topics. Come and help us to understand the mission of the National Theatre,and the cultural space of the Czech Republic in the 21th century amidst the changing socio-political milieu of contemporary Europe. The planed time for the discussion is 90 minutes. |
The Symbolic of Evil25. - 29. 06. 2018 |
The Society for Ricoeur Studies and The Fonds Ricoeur have released a call for abstracts on
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BETWEEN RESSENTIMENT
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Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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GRANT OF THE TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC |
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| JACQUES RANCIÈRE: POLITICS OF FICTION |
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M. Hauser present a lecture of the renown French philosopher J. Rancière |
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M. Nitsche'S lecture on the phenomenology of religious conversion was presented at the conference: in Berkeley, California |
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| The conference was organized by the SOPHERE: Society for phenomenology of Religious Experience. |
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The publishing house Pulchra published another J. Pechar's book on the relationship between literature and philosophy. |
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The relationship between thinking and imagination is of fundamental importance both to literature and philosophy. The new book by J. Pechar, aesthetician, theoretician of literature, philosopher, and translator, interprets a Czech view of the relationship between philosophy and literature in the context of the world literary thought. Pechar’s considerations draw on both on particular literary works and authors, be it Dante’s Divine comedy in the context of medieval thought, Goethe in the context of cultural synthesis, or Tolstoy’s and Dostoyevsky’s novels in the context of the dramatic aspect of individual and social life. |
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The publishing house of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague presents J. Fulka's book about the sign language and deafness. |
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100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
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Excerpts from the interview: "It seems to me that the 100th anniversary brings back the idea that the October revolution aided capitalism in adapting more human attitude. I percieve it as one of the important issues of the October revolution." "We simply need a historical distance. As it is already one century since the revolution, we don't necessarily need to interpret it just as an outset of the totalitarian regime which is quite suspicious concept in its own terms." "If there really was a radical revolution in the twentieth century, than it was this one since it succeeded in the complete social transformation. It did not happen anywhere else. The change the revolution brought about has also been historically unique. A new type of society has emerged, a society, at least during the first fifteen years, where social classes as the pre-given economical compartments ceased to exist."
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| WE NEED TO DECOLONIZE OUR THINKING | |
| An interview with Karel Novotný on the website of the Faculty of Humanities - a summary of his relationship to philosophy. |
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| Beside other things, you can read there: "Philosophy and the reading of philosophers are individual and creative, similarly to art." "Philosophy entails thinking face to face critical situations and serious theoretical questions... It goes under the surface and can influence you in the same way as great literature or poetry." "We need to understand that thinking outside Europe needs decolonization. And we also need to decolonize our own thinking, to open ourselves to the challenges of the intercultural dialogue and social conflict of our era." |
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Michael Hauser (Institut dephilosophie de l’Académie des 07. 12. 2017 “Radical Realism” as the Appearance of the Soviet Avant-garde on the Contemporary Artistic Field a lecture at the international colloquim 1917-2017: REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LES AVANT-GARDES ARTISTIQUES SOVIÉTIQUES Université Paris Nanterre - Université Paris 8 |
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PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIA |
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Vít Pokorný and Facutly of Arts, Purkyně University Ústí nad Labem present the lecture about the philosophy of media. Media are an integral part of human civilization from its beginnings. They are tools of communication, and of the shared constitution of human live worlds. As technological tools, media extend and transform our existence on the psychological, social, political and cultural levels. Since the invention of the scripture, the power and influence of media has changed several times: with the typography, telegraph, radio or television, the new forms of communication have arrived, and the new forms of social organisation and political power with it. The lecture asks following questions: What is characteristic of the media situation today? What changes in human thought, society, economy and political organisation are related to the emergence of the networked, integrated media landscape, of responsive technologies and artificial intelligence? What challenges come forth with the |
BABIŠ IS A LITTLE NEMESIS |
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An interview in czech with M. Hauser on populism M. Hauser says in the interview, among other things: "Populism is, so to say, a attempt to reinstate the fundaments of liberal democracy in the times of its crises" |
| TRANSLATION OF ETIÉNNA BALIBAR'S BOOKS TO CZECH |
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| PHILOSOPHY AS PERMANENTLY OPEN QUESTION |
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PAUL RICOUEUR'S MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
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A new member of the Department for Contemporary Continental Philosophy, the philosopher from the Universiteit Antwerpen Geoffrey Dierckxsens publische his new book with Rowman & Littlefield. Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility, Justice. |
CONFERENCES IN NOVEMBER 2017 |
In November of 2017, the members of out departement organize three international conferences: |
1) In 1. - 3. 11. 2017, Petr Kouba a col. organize the conference Towards a phenomenology of social change |
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2) In 14. - 15. 11. 2017, Michael Hauser and col. organize the 1968- 1989: Paris - Prague conference. |
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3) In 23. - 24. 11 , Petr Urban and col.. organize the conference: Caring Democracy: Current topics in the political theory of care |
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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PRO M. RITTERA VE WEIMARU |
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HOLIDAY IN HELSINKI |
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 Holidy photo: This statue was the Russian gift to Finland in 1989. |
| RESPONSES TO THE PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY PRAGUE 2017 |
1) The interview with the keynote speaker Susan Kusick about music and torture on the Radio Wave website |
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an article on the Czech Academy of Sciences website about the Performance philosophyPrague 2017 |
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PHILOSOPHICAL CARE OF THE BODY |
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| PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY PRAGUE 2017 |
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| PHENOMENOLOGY AND ECOLOGY PHÄNOMENOLOGIE UND ËCOLOGIE |
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| ETHICS AND METAPHYSICS IN EDITH STEIN'S PHILOSOPHY |
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 The Fourth Biannual Conference organized by International Association for the study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein, the McNerney Endowed Chair in Ethics and the University of Portland |
| AT THE ORIGINS OF PHENOMENOLOGY |
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THE LEGACY OF GEORG LUKÁCS: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE |
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Conference website Michael Hauser took part in the international conference on G. Lukács, worldly renown marxist philosopher who had been uniting philosophy and political praxis throughout his work. One of the motives to organize the conference was recent removal of his statue in Budapest and intended shutdown of his archives. Once again, Lukács is perceived as troubling, this time in Orbanian Hungary. It was probably one of the biggest conferences on Lukácz in the last fifty years. Organizers were counting on fifteen applications, but in the end they got about one houndred. Especially the younger generation of scholars was interested, for instance a strong Brazilian group. There were also five people from the Czech Republic and three from Poland. Many presentations focused on the contemporary partision of theory and praxis, and consequent disintegration of the social theory into dissociated detailed analyses of tiny chunks or reality. Alson, a lot of critique of the contemporary radical theories (post-marxism) was aired, in the sense that they show tendency to separate leftist politics and economics, and create an abstract radikalism without actual political strategy that would encourage the ways how to stand up to the rightest populism and neoliberal capitalism. |
PHILOSOPHY AT PLAY CONFERENCE |
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METHODICAL PRECEDENCE OF INTERTWINING |
The Martin Nitsche's new book Metodická přednost spleti was published by the Togga publishing house. |
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The main goal of the book is to present a transitive-topological model of phenomenology that can describe the intertwined phenomena and explain how humans relate to them. The intertwined phenomena appear in such a way that they encompass the one to whom they appear. In this manner, they establish a complex relational structure that is characteristic of most of the human experiences at the start of the 21st century. The fundamental point of the proposed model is the interpretation of intertwined phenomenality as a specific area, and recognition of its methodological precedence. Our ability to find sense and place in complex times in necessarily linked to acceptance of complexity as the point of departure for our thinking. |
PHENOMENOLOGY AND CARE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI |
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COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL: LES GUERRES DE L'HUMAIN PARIS |
From 9th to 10th of March, 2017, Alice Koubová will participate in the international colloquium dedicated to the topic of Human Wars at the Université Paris Nanterre. |
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Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences CR kindly invites to the lecture of dr. Thomase Szanto from the Center for Subjectivity Research, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. |
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INTERVIEW WITH PETR URBAN AT THE ETHICS OF CARE WEBSITE |
Petr Urban recapitulates his philosophical carrier and the path towards the ethics of care in the interview titled Practice of care and practice of play. |
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Conference and Summer School  |
| The summer school is co-organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Hynek Janousek, Robin Rollinger), the Departement of Philosophy at UQAM University in Montréal (Denis Fisette) and the Department of Philosophy (KGW) at the University of Salzburg (Johannes Brandl, Guillaume Fréchette), and is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the Austrian FWF, and the Internationale Franz Brentano Gesellschaft e.V. (Würzburg). |
THE PRAGUE SCHOOL IN THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FRANZ BRENTANO |
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Hynek Janoušek and Robin Rollinger have published a chapter titled The Prague School in the Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano. |
MARTIN NITSCHE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI FULLBRIGHT LECTURE |
Martin Nitsche, who was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the UCLA, Department of Political Science in 2017, will present his lecture on a controversial theme at the University of Hawai: "What Can Late Heidegger Offer Political Theory?" |
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