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Martin Ritter is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. From 2007 to 2020, he taught continental philosophy at the Charles University. Martin specializes in phenomenology (esp. Jan Patočka) and critical theory (esp. Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno). Currently, he focuses on media philosophy and philosophy of technology. Martin edited (and translated) three volumes of the Czech Selected Writings of Walter Benjamin, and translated into Czech the works of, among others, Theodor W. Adorno, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Žižek, or Homi Bhabha. Recently, he has published two monographs: To liberate the future by an act of cognition. Walter Benjamin's theory of truth; Filosofia 2018, in Czech), and Into the World. The Movement of Patočka’s Phenomenology (Springer 2019).
Since October 2020, Martin has joined the research group “Philosophy of Media and Technology” at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, with his research project Technology as a Medium of Existence: A Benjaminian Techno Anthropology.
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