JAN BIERHANZL

Jan Bierhanzl is a researcher at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of German and French Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. In his research, he focuses mainly on following areas: contemporary French philosophy, Emmanuel Levinas, ethics and politics, aesthetics. He is an author of the monograph La rupture du sens. Corps, langage et non-sens dans la pensée d'Emmanuel Levinas. In 2015, he was awarded the Otto Wichterle Award for outstanding young researchers of the Academy of Sciences. 

Research interests:

Contemporary French Philosophy, Ethics, Political philosophy, Aesthetics

Important publications:

Bierhanzl, Jan. 2017.  Práce a dílo. Levinas, Arendtová a Marxismus. Filozofia 2017, roč. 72, č. 1, s. 46-53.
Dostupný z: < http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/filozofia/2017/1/46-53.pdf>.

Bierhanzl, Jan. 2017. Láska není antipolitická síla. Protestant 2017, č. 10, s. 1-3. 
Dostupný z: <http://protestant.evangnet.cz/laska-neni-antipoliticka-sila>

Bierhanzl, Jan. 2016. Ethique, folie et exclusion: Le dernier Levinas et le premier Foucault. In Cohen-Levinas, D.; Schnell, A. (ed.). Relire Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence d'Emmanuel Levinas Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2016, s. 187-198. Problèmes et controverses.

Bierhanzl, Jan. 2016. Uprchlík, člověk a občan. In Protestant 1/2016
http://protestant.evangnet.cz/uprchlik-clovek-obcan

Bierhanzl, Jan. 2014. La rupture du sens. Corps, langage et non-sens dans la pensée de la signifiance éthique d'Emmanuel Levinas, předmluva Gérard Bensussan. Paris: Mimesis.