KAREL NOVOTNÝ

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.

Research interests:

German and French philosophy, hermeneutics, German classical philosophy, Philosophical anthropology, Philosophy of history.

Selected publications:

Novotný, K. 2021. Welt und Leib. Zu einigen Grundmotiven der Phänomenologie. Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Bd. 50. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.

Novotný, K., Nielsen, C. (eds.) 2020. Die Welt  und das Reale. Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz.

Novotný, K. 2019. Vie et nature: La première révision de la phénoménologie transcendantale dans les inédits de Jan Patočka des années 40, in: Alter. Revue de phénoménologie 27, 2019, p. 43-59.

Novotný, K., Trindade, H. (eds.) 2018. The Idea of the Lifeworld in Edmund Husserl, in: Interpretationes. Studia Philosophica Europeanea Vol. VIII, 2018, Nr. 1, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Praha: Karolinum.

Novotný, K. 2017. Pohyb života a svět. O fenomenologii a metafyzice světa u Jana Patočky, in: Reflexe 2017, 53, S. 139-155.

Nielsen, K., Novotný, K., Nenon, T. (eds.) 2016. Kontexte des Leiblichen / Contexts of corporeality. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz

Novotný, K. 2016. Relevance subjektivity. Tělo a duše z hlediska fenomenologie afektivity. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart.

Novotný, K., Rodrigo, P., Slatman, J., Stoller, S. (eds.) 2013. Corporeity and Affectivity. Dedicated to Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Brill.

Novotný, K. 2012. La genèse d'une hérésie. Monde, corps et histoire dans la pensée de Jan Patočka. Bibliothèque de l'histoire de la philosophie. Nouvelle série. Librairie Philosophique. Paris: J. VRIN.

Novotný, K. 2012. Neue Konzepte der Phänomenalität. Essais zur Subjektivität und Leiblichkeit des Erscheinens. Orbis phaenomenologicus, Bd. 26, Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen und Neumann.

Novotný, K. 2010. O povaze jevů. Úvod do současné francouzské fenomenologie. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart.

Novotný, K. (ed.) 2010. Co je fenomén? Husserl a fenomenologie ve Francii. Praha/Červený Kostelec: OIKOYMENH/Pavel Mervart.

Membership in professional institutions:

Member of Study Boards for postgradual studies of philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities. Member of the Scientific Board at the Faculty of Humanities.
Vice-Dean for Habilitations and Professorships at the Faculty of Humanities.

Member of editorial boards of several periodics: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, Interpretationes. Studia Phaenomenologica Europaenea (Acta Universitatis Carolinae), Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Philosophie, Reflexe, Lidé města.

Web:

SIF: Středoevropský institut filosofie
Profile at FHS UK
Profile at the Europhilosophie websiterofile at the Europhilosophie website