PETR PRÁŠEK

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Dr. Petr Prášek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. 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 PhD. thesis, Le devenir-autre de l'existence. Essai sur la phénoménologie contemporaine, was awarded the Bolzano Prize by the Rector of Charles University in 2020. Its revised version was published in 2023 by Hermann in Paris.
His other publications include a monograph on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and a number of articles on contemporary French phenomenology and eco-phenomenology. In his current projects, P. Prášek focuses on applied phenomenology. In addition to ecological issues, he also deals with fake news.

Curriculum vitae here. 

 

  

 


   Research interests:

   20th and 21st century French philosophy; phenomenology; applied phenomenology; eco-phenomenology; Deleuze; Maldiney; Richir; Marion; Barbaras; Abram; Toadvine, etc.;
 

Selected publications:

2025 Prášek, Petr, K. Novotný, B. Bannon (eds.), The Faces of Nature: Eco-Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Nature, to be published by Lexington Books in 2025.
2025 Prášek, Petr, Stávat se jiným. Studie k současné fenomenologii ve Francii (Becoming-Other. Study on Contemporary Phenomenology in France), to be published by Oikoymenh, Prague, in 2025.
2025 Prášek, Petr, „The Activity of Human Passivity and the Process of Nature: Renaud Barbaras’ ‘Eco-Phenomenology’ Facing the Paradox of the Anthropocene”, in: Michael T. Heneise et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology, to be published in 2025.
2024 Prášek, Petr, “Deleuze, Phenomenology, and the Ethics of the Event”, in: Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 18(3), p. 408-429.