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The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

Book review: Dennis Smith: Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power. London: Routledge, 2018, 216 s.

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Any attempt to reaffirm equality as a fundamental democratic value faces two tasks: it must respond to social and cultural changes accompanying the most recent phase of capitalist development, and it must reactivate the ...

The text examines the works of the representatives of the institutional critique, in particular the works of Hans Haacke, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher and Daniel Buren. It starts with the discussion on the instituti...

The article presents the current state of knowledge regarding the use of analogy in domestic jurisprudence, with the aim of outlining its place and role in the process of finding the law. The performed analysis makes it ...

The aim of the article is to investigate the theory of conceptual metaphor with regard to its possible use in fundamental theology. Instead of focusing on the analysis of concrete metaphors, the article argues that it is...

This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical di...

The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of biographies by the Heidelbe...

The study is based on the prosopography of 93 professors, who have taught at the Prague Utraquist University in the years 1526–1622. It examines the careers of 63 of them, who have left the university and settled down ...

Given the extent and state of surviving source materials, it is rather difficult to satisfactorily document the involvement of women of Jewish origin in academic education and their subsequent careers in science and prac...

The following text is based on the outcomes of a long-term field research carried out in eastern Slovakia, and it focuses on the character and specifics of religiosity of the Romany settlements inhabitants. One of the ch...

After a brief presentation of basic forms of spiritual direction and after stressing the importance of personal spiritual experience, the article describes Ignatian concept of human being in relation with God and God’s...

Following the book Lucifer Effect (2007) written by the American social psychologist Philip Zimbardo, the study explores his central idea that human character can be easily manipulated and corrupted by force of ‘total ...

This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biol...

The abuse of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution during the late presidency of Hindenburg has been criticized in many previous studies as one of the key factors of the collapse of the Weimar Republic that led to the es...

The article describes the role of the Chicago School of Sociology in the development of empirical social research. It traces the increase in the significance of the education of doctoral students on American universities...

The article analyses a selected text of the travelogue of Czech nobleman and humanist Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621). Harant’s information on the ancient Roman custom of punishing debtors ...

The use of renewable energy is one of the priorities of common EU policies to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate the effects of climate change. On the other hand, the protection of biodiversity, which also contribute...

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The article presents partial results of a study on market-oriented multilingualism and its strategic management in the workplace of a multinational company in the Czech Republic. The study incorporates the language manag...

Often, liberation theology’s preferential option for the poor is pushed aside within theological discourses as being too specific, too focused on social problems, to function as a viable theology for the Church as a wh...