Volume 70 (2015), 9

The notion of social pathology has become a common term which is being used very broadly: in common speech as well as in academic discussions. The paper focuses on the historical development of this notion. The author explores its usage from the early meaning of the term in medical vocabulary (Jean François Fernel in the16th century) through its application in the… Read more

The article offers an analysis of Heidegger’s writings from the 1950s in which he, influenced by the historical condition of that time, explored the patterns of modern thought. First he shows the characteristic features of the latter, and then compares them with their possible more profound forms. These investigations, so the author, might strongly inspire… Read more

The paper aims to propose a phenomenological topological model of collective perspective. In this framework the paper analyses Husserl’s accounts of intersubjectivity emphasizing the difference between early and late conceptions of Einfühlung. The early conception (until 1916) derives the intersubjectivity from the localizing of haptic perceptions on my visually… Read more

In 1914 Theodor Haecker presented Kierkegaard to the German-speaking public as a social critic, when he published the translation of a fragment from Kierkegaard’s A Literary Review (1846). The translation inspired several influential authors of the interwar period, who commented on the condition of the society of that time. One of them was Karl Jaspers who… Read more

Nathalie Heinich distinguishes a mutation in the history of art, which appeared due the development of contemporary art. Analyzing a contemporary work of art she finds the non-authenticity to be its essential quality. It is this quality that makes the contemporary work of art different from a modern one laying the claim to authenticity. Non-authenticity presents… Read more

Reality presents itself in “adumbrations“. It is not due to the subject whose perception is distorted by his/her insufficient abilities; it is due to the real itself, which is unstable and incomplete. The being of things and persons is fundamentally multiplied, dispersed among thousands of “adumbrations”. Yet these various appearances, though not representing a… Read more

The contribution deals with the concept of human rights from philosophical perspective. It tries to answer the question whether a rationally and universally valid definition of human rights is possible at all. In its first part a general characteristics of human rights is offered followed in its second part by the exploration of prevailing ways of justification of… Read more

Our aim in this article is to offer an ethical and political approach to human body and life of a human being, deriving from the common reading and interpreting the famous Foucault’s writing on biopolitics as well as the shift of the relationship between ethics, life, sensual perception and corporeality made by Levinas in the 1960s and 1970s.