MARTIN RITTER

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Martin Ritter received his PhD in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (2009). He is Deputy Director at the Institute of Philosophy and Senior Researcher at its Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He is also affiliated with the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague. Within the consortium project Beyond Security: The Role of Conflict in Resilience Building, he is the coordinator of the IP’s involvement and deputy leader of one of its research work packages (Conflict and Technology in the Anthropocene). From 2007 to 2020, he taught philosophy at Charles University, Prague. From 2020 to 2022, he was a visiting scholar in the research group Philosophy of Media at the University of Vienna. He published three monographs and numerous journal articles especially on phenomenology, critical theory, media philosophy, and philosophy of technology.

Curriculum vitae here.


Research interests:

philosophy of technology, phenomenology, critical theory, media philosophy


Selected publications:

How to Make a Difference in the Anthropocene? On Stiegler’s Call for Bifurcation. Philos. Technol. 37, 136 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00824-x
Technological Mediation without Empirical Borders. In: de Boer, B., and Zwier, J. (eds.) Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2024, 121-142
Towards a Terrestrially Ontological Philosophy of Technology. Found Sci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-023-09916-x
Capitalization. Linking Adorno with Mediatization Theory. In: Popp, J., and Voropai, L. (eds.) Adorno und die Medien. Kritik, Relevanz, Ästhetik. Berlin: Kadmos, 2022, 81-94.
Postphenomenological Method and Technological Things Themselves. Hum Stud 44, 581–593 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09603-5
Die Unmittelbarkeit des Mediums. Zur Aktualität der Medienphilosophie Walter Benjamins. Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie, 2019, 5, 87–104.
Into the World. The Movement of Patočka’s Phenomenology, Springer 2019
Poznáním osvobozovat budoucí. Benjaminova teorie pravdy, Oikúmené 2018