Buscar recursos académicos

V hlavních proudech teorie sekularizace, jež jsou přímými následovníky osvícenecké filozofie, je náboženství považováno za přechodnou fázi evoluce lidstva, která není kompatibilní s racionálním myšl...

The Bellum Hispaniense is for the most part considered in scholarship only with respect to textual and linguistic problems and in relation to its deficit in literary qualities. Through a close reading, the present paper ...

This study focuses on the manifestations of ethnic identity of the Ruthenian population living in today’s Slovakia. This identity was (and still is) characterised by a relatively low divergence from the separate ethnic...

The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The id...

This study deals with the changes within Czech and Slovak hardcore-punk fanzines from the beginning of 90s up to the present time. It’s based on research into youth subculture and also on the interpretation of “indep...

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 ...

Recenze: Eduardo P. Archetti. Masculinities. Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. New York: Berg, 1999, 212 stran.

Recenze: Helena Kubátová: Životní svět a sociální světy. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, 2008, 255 stran.

The present study explores sources which cast light on the usage of Latin in everyday communication within communities of religious orders, observing the particular choice of Latin rather than vernacular languages for ce...

A proper theological perspective on technical media is not possible without a thorough consideration of the role of language in Christianity. Christian theology can gain this perspective in view of the fact that the sphe...

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 deals with Levinas’s philosophy as an inspiration and challenge for Christian theology. The inspiration can be found in the phenomenology of the idea of infinite God, in the emphasis on the radical transcen...

The article begins by giving the reasons why the number of languages spoken in the world today cannot be ascertained with any precision. It then continues with a survey of the viability of contemporary North American Ind...

Recenze: John L. Esposito a Dalia Mogahed: Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think? New York: Gallup Press, 2007, 204 stran.

Recenze: Jóhann P. Árnason: Civilizační analýza. Evropa a Asie opět na rozcestí. Praha: Filosofia, 2009, 148 stran.

The following text deals with the sociology of I. A. Bláha in the context of two contemporary discussions about values in social science: the first is a dispute about so called public sociology and the second represents...

Recenze: Littel, Jonathan: Laskavé bohyně. Praha: Odeon 2008 (z francouzského originálu Les Bienveillantes vydaného v roce 2006 nakladatelstvím Gallimard přeložila Michala Marková), 868 stran.

The author argues that intellectuals in semiperipheral countries are liable to interpret the fate of their nations more pathetically than intellectuals in core countries. This thinking has its roots in the Christian anta...

The article reports on the findings of an empirical study of the use of repeats – as one of the markers of disfluency – in advanced learner English and contributes to the study of L2 fluency. An analysis of 13 hours ...

This text focuses on the role of the brushstroke in Vincent van Gogh’s work. Van Gogh’s brushstroke technique draws on the tradition of European painting, spanning from Titian to Delacroix and the Impressionists, a t...

The article presents a basic characteristic of Latin-Greek didactic texts called the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana and, in particular, their colloquia. It offers several examples of the colloquia with a brief commentary ...

This article examined objective and subjective speaking rate and their relation. Read speech of 22 Czech radio newsreaders (13 male and 9 female) constituted the material for the study. The objective rate was measured as...

Stále více a častěji se fotografie objevují v expozicích galerií výtvarného umění, pořádají se autorské výstavy, fotografické festivaly, autoři fotografií spolupracují s významnými deníky a časopi...

This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”. The main intention ...