Volume 72 (2017), 10

What is the nature of the interpellation that enables us to recognize ourselves as subjects of an experience? How do we become subjects and what is the relationship between subjectivity and otherness? The paper discusses the genesis of the subjectivity from a phenomenological and a social standpoint, confronting Levinas’ phenomenological perspective on subjective… Read more

Michel Foucault characterizes philosophy as an attitude which consists in asking following questions: Who are we? What is this present we are in and which we are? Philosophy, he says, is ontology of the present. This definition might generate two further questions: Who are this “we”? What are the relations between this present and the current actuality which is… Read more

The paper critically examines Carl Schmitt’s and Reinhart Koselleck’s contributions to the reflection of the epistemological advantage of the vanquished. Both authors claim that the experience of being defeated contains a unique potential for creation of innovative historical interpretations and historiographic procedures which have long-term usefulness. Adverse… Read more

The article draws on Tugendhat’s idea of the twofold character of truth resulting from the twofold structure of self-conciousnes. When asking the question Who is a person? there is always our implicit self-evidence present. And from Kant on we also ask explicit questions, such as How do we want to understand ourselves? and What is better for us? This articulation… Read more

Husserlian phenomenology can analyze the art criticism in two ways: first, it can analyze its very transcendental possibilities; second, it can analyze it as a particular cultural institution. The former approach places art criticism within analyses of pure consciousness at the “crossroad” between aesthetic and natural attitude while arguing for primacy of the… Read more

Drawing on examples of works of art by very diverse artists as Fra Angelico, Vermeer, Lucebert, De Bruyckere, and Moreau, I aim to show that the specific ways in which artworks yield aesthetic experiences cannot be properly understood without recourse to the peculiar (and all too often neglected) presence of matter in the work of art. In this paper I sketch the… Read more

Drawing on an international interdisciplinary conference Štúr, his followers, romanticists, national revivalists (carried out in 2015) the article analyzes the theoretical heritage of Ľ. Štúr. The author’s focus is on several aspects of Štúr’s activities in the pre- and post-revolutionary periods in the 40s of the 19th century. A special attention is paid to Štúr’… Read more