PETR VAŠKOVIC

Petr Vaškovic studied philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, where he defended his dissertation on Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard’s ethics. A revised version of his dissertation was published in 2024 by De Gruyter under the title Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky: The Search of the Authentic Life and the Problem of Existential Entrapment. Since 2023 he has been a researcher at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at Palacký University in Olomouc. He is primarily interested in existential philosophy (Kierkegaard, Camus, Sartre, Dostoevsky), phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas) and ecophenomenology. His research focuses on topics such as emotions, corporeality or the relationship between humans and more-than-human nature. 

Research Interests:

Existential philosophy, phenomenology, ecophenomenology, environmental philosophy

Selected publications:

1. Vaškovic, Petr. In Search of the Authentic Life: Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard and the Problem of Existential Entrapment. Berlin: De Gruyter 2024.
2. Vaškovic, Petr, Vičanová, Gabriela. “Anxiety, Hope and Meaning in Times of Ecological Crisis: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective on Environmental Emotions.” Human Studies, 2024, pp. 1-21.
3. Vaškovic, Petr. “Philosophical perspectives on climate anxiety.” In: G. Pellegrino & M. Di Paola (eds.). Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer, 2023, pp. 1-22.
4. Vaškovic, Petr. “The tale of two seducers: existential entrapment in the works of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky.” Kierkegaard Studies, vol. 26, issue 1, 2021, pp. 431-457.
5. Vaškovic, Petr. “A path to authenticity: Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky on existential transformation.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 87, issue 1, 2020, pp. 81–108.