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Head of Department Martin Nitsche was born on 23rd of June, 1975 in Ústí nad Labem. His research interests include phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty), topology, philosophy of art, and philosophy of religion. From 1993 to 1999, he studied philosophy and history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. In 2007, he earned PhD for the work in systematic philosophy entitled Essence of Human Being according to Heideger's Contributions to Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the same faculty. Since 2000, he is an assistant professor for Phenomenology and Philosophy of Art at the Department of Political Science and Philosophy of the Philosophical Faculty, Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. Since 2010, he is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in Prague. His habilitation was aproved in 2016, and he became an associate professor (docent) in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University Prague. He was awarded the Fullbright - Masaryk Fellowship at the Department of Political Science, UCLA, USA in 2016/17. He has published following monographies: Metodická přednost spleti. Tranzitivně-topologický model fenomenologie; Die Ortschaft des Seins. Martin Heideggers phänomenologische Topologie; Prostranství bytí. Studie k Heideggerově topologii; a Z příhodného. Fenomenologická interpretace Heideggerových Příspěvků k filosofii.
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ALICE KOUBOVÁ
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KAREL NOVOTNÝ
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prof. Karel Novotný, M.A, Ph.D, DSc., studied master program “Philosophy – Physics” at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Matematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, and the master programs in philosophy and political science at the Catholic University Eichstätt in Germany. The PhD studies were accomplished en cotutelle at the Université Paris XII – Créteil and at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague, where he received PhD in 2003. Habilitation in philosophy at the Palacký University Olomouc in 2012, Professor of philosophy at the Charles University in 2019. Since 2016 he is a Research Professor (Doctor Scientiarum) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science. He published six monographs, co-edited fifteen collective monographs, including two editions of primary sources (Patočka, Landgrebe), and one anthology of translations. He has published more than seventy articles and book chapters, translated several philosophical texts by I. Kant, E. Husserl, M. Henry, M. Richir, etc.
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PETR KOUBA
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Petr Kouba studied philosophy at the Departement of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and received PhD at the same department in 2006. During his postgraduate study, he was awarded several fellowships: at the Universität Zurich (2000 - 2001), Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (2001 - 2002), and the Université de Lausanne (2003-2004). After receiving PhD, he lectured at the Anglo-American College in Prague and in the international programm CERGE-EI at the Charles University. Besides being a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, he lectured philosophy at the Departement of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles Universtity in Prague between 2006 - 2016. He is an author of the books Fenomén duševní poruchy. Perspektivy Heideggerova myšlení v oblasti psychopatologie, which was translated to the English (2015) and German (2012) languages. He published another two monographies: Margins of Phenomenology, and Exodus bez Mojžíše. He also co-edited three collective monographies: Dynamic Structure: Language as Open System, Medicína v kontextu západního myšlení, and Franz Kafka: Minority Report. |
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Dr. Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy AV CR (from January 2020). She is an associate member of the Centre d’Étude des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She obtained her PhD in 2019 with a dissertation on Ricoeur & social thought. She is an active member of the Fonds Ricoeur and social media director of the Society for Ricoeur Studies.
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He graduated from philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. He received his PhD. in 2003 at the same department. Besides the position at the Institute of Philosophy, he is also an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, and in the Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies (CERGE-EI) in Prague. He was awarded the Fulbright - Masaryk fellowship at the Department of Communication Studies, University Texas at Austin in 2013 - 2014. His expertise lies mainly in the field of the 18th and 20th century philosophy and the theory of literature. He translated numerous works from French and English, including authors like R. Barbaras, J. Kristeva, R. Barthes, E. Laclau, L. Althusser, M. Foucault, J. Butler, H. Lane, C. Lévi-Strauss, J. Rancière, M. Richir, A. Badiou, G. Didi-Huberman, P. Klossowski, M. Maffesoli, and others. |
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MARTIN RITTER
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Martin Ritter (1977) completed his PhD studies in 2007 at Charles University in Prague with a dissertation on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language. In 2007–2018 he taught philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University; in 2010 he became a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is an expert on Jan Patočka’s phenomenology and on the thought of Walter Benjamin. Currently, Martin focuses on media philosophy. He edited (and translated) three volumes of Czech Selected Writings of Walter Benjamin, and translated into Czech key works of, among others, Theodor W. Adorno, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Žižek, or Homi Bhabha. He published dozens of theoretical studiies, and also two latest books Poznáním osvobozovat budoucí. Teorie poznání Waltera Benjamina. (To liberate future with knowledge. W. Benjamin's theory of cognition - 2018) and Into the World. The Movement of Patočka’s Phenomenology (2019) |
MICHAEL HAUSER
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JAN BIERHANZL
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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 two monograph La rupture du sens. Corps, langage et non-sens dans la pensée d'Emmanuel Levinas and L'action faible: de l'éthique à la politique. In 2015, he was awarded the Otto Wichterle Award for outstanding young researchers of the Academy of Sciences. In 2019, he won the Fullbright Visiting Scholar scholarship at the Pennsylvania State University. |
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(*1977) H. Janoušek studied philosophy at Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, namely at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and was awarded his Ph.D. in 2015 for the thesis on the originis of Husserl's phenomenology in the contexts of Franz Brentano School (Marty, Twardowski, Meinong, Kraus, Ehrenfels). His research also focuses on empiricist philosophy of David Hume and on rationalist philosophy of Bernard Bolzano. He is interested in bringing thoughts of these authors into the contemporary phenomenological and analytic discourses in order to reveal some of their basic premises and indicate possibilities of their future development. He also makes his research accessible to wider scientific audience in translations and commentaries. Curriculum Vitae: |
PETR PRÁŠEK
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Dr. Petr Prášek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the CAS. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Charles University in Prague (supervisors: prof. R. Barbaras, prof. M. Petříček). His thesis, Le devenir-autre de l'existence. Essai sur la phénoménologie contemporaine, was awarded the Bolzano Prize by the president of Charles University in 2020. A revised version was published by Hermann in 2023. His other publications include, in particular, a monograph on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Human in the Mad Becoming of the World: Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy, 2018) and a number of articles on contemporary French phenomenology. All these texts deal with the analysis of the becoming-other of human existence. In his current project, P. Prášek extends his research and focuses on the ethical implications of dynamic descriptions of existence: he attempts to apply the results of research of contemporary phenomenology in France to current issues such as ecological questions.
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Vít Pokorný graduated from philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, in 2002. In 2016, he was awarded his PhD at the Department of General Anthropology of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague for his research on psychedelic experiences. He is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and assistant professor at the Department of Political Sciences and Philosophy of the Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He publishes in philosophy and cognitive anthropology. His theoretical interest include theory of perception and imagination, enactivism, philosophy of media or rhizomatics. He is a member of the Society for Aesthetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He was a co-applicant in the research grant Methodological precedence of Intertwinng: theory and application, and currently (2020-2022) in another grant project called Phenomenological investigations of sonic environments. He is an author of a philosophical texbook Postmoderní filosofie, then two monographies Myslet z psychedelických zkušeností: transdisciplinární interpretace and Psychonauticon: transdisciplinary interpretation of psychedelic experiences, and also an editor and co-author of the collective monography Antropologie smyslů. In his work, he attempts on finding connections between various disciplines - philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, or ecological thinking in order to formulate a complex transdisciplinary perspective. |
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Robin Rollinger does research in phenomenology and Austrian philosophy. In addition, he has written about logic and psychology in the nineteenth century. Among the books he has authored are Husserl's Position in the School of Brentano (1999) and Austrian Phenomenology (2008). He is also the author of numerous articles and the editor of two volumes of Husserl's collected works (Husserliana). R. Rollinger's CV and publications |
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Ivan Gutierrez was born and raised in the USA, Colombia, and Mexico. He studies philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. He received PhD titel for the work on the relation of embodiment and the new medi. He become visiting member of the Deparment of Contemporary Continental Philosophy in January 2020 as a cooplicant of the GAČR grant "Phenomenological investigations of sonic environment." Besides, he teaches philosophy at the Anglo-American University in Prague and works as a translator. |
