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In his essays on general history, Patočka locates the thaumatical shake-up together with the beginning of philosophy, politics, and history in classical Greece, when man first stepped back from being and became able to ...

In their philosophical works Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey criticize philosophical conceptions that consider the stability of the outer world to be a basic characteristic of reality and conceive of change only as...

If the objective meaning of philosophy and science is different from the subjective meaning of life as it is expressed by art, the self-creation of the soul can express, through art, a universal objective; philosophy, ar...

The article deals with two Jan Patočka essays, each written to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus (1947). In these essays, the writer is defined as an ‘interpreter of ...

Arthur C. Danto is considered one of the most influential analytical philosophers of art of 20th century. He introduced the notion “artworld” into the art-historical and philosophical vocabulary and he was one of the...

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 Trinity is usually regarded as an exclusively theological topic. If, however, the postulated unity of the dogmatic tracts ‘De Deo uno’ and ‘De Deo trino’ is taken seriously, there must be at least a philosoph...

The article explores Jiang Menglin’s philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan (“view on life”) in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part...

Second half of the 19th century saw a number of national attempts to revise the Baroque values. Czech Neo-Baroque sculpture represents a style-expressive tendency, which reflected this nationally motivated interest and a...

In this paper, we focus on the explanation of the essence of artistic experience elaborated by Emmanuel Lévinas based on his philosophical conception of „home.“ Lévinas says, that the true meaning of art lies in th...

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 perception of the Stations of the Cross is constantly oscillating between visual perception and the acceptance of a verbal description. In the beginning, people taking part in historical events (Jesus Christ went to ...

As a documentation material, the text is often overshadowed by photography – but unlike photography, it can mediate the processual character of performance art. In terms of form, it is possible to discern a typology of...

The essay is dedicated to the Pieta of Všeměřice, important sculpture of high quality from the beginnings of the Late Gothic art in the Czech lands. On the basis of the formal analysis of the works of Master of Týn C...

This essay presents an argument for a Collingwoodean social philosophy of art that centres on the opposition between art and magic as developed by R. G. Collingwood in Principles of Art and his folklore manuscript. The a...

The article is a discussion of the relationship between interpretation and extra-textual reality. The first part focuses on the concepts of unlimited semiosis and intertextuality, which poststructuralist theorists believ...

This article focuses on the concepts of pain at different times and in different disciplines. It presents approaches to understanding both within hermeneutics and in the field of ethics. These points are further connecte...

André Gide described Soviet attitudes towards the outside world in the 1930s as a manifestation of a superiority complex. And it seems to me that the proclamations of representatives of architecture, applied arts and pr...

The concept of cruelty as an artistic principle touches on the problem of violence, bodily presence and physical expression in art. By examining this aspect in the art and texts of four important figures of Western moder...

The paper follows how and in what context the development of Czech modern art was characterized by two leading theorizing artists: painters Miloš Jiránek and Emil Filla. Special attention is paid to their conception of...

As an art historian who has long focused on the manifestations of the visual culture of the German-speaking scene in the Czech lands, I have repeatedly encountered the topic of perceiving the “Czechness” and “world...