Volume 53 (1998), 7

The paper offers a commentary on the philosophy of M. Merleau-Ponty, who fall into oblivion for some time in Slovakia. It was written on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birthday. It gives a survey of Merleau-Ponty's studies during last three decades in France and in other countries. It tries to answer the question, wether this specific philosophy of… Read more

The paper examines Merleau-Ponty's interpretation of Sartre's vision of humans and world, Merleau-Ponty's commentaries are an englightening instruction for reading Being and Nothingness. Merleau-Ponty took into accout the essential antithesis of two modes of being, (Being in itself and Being for itself), nevertheless it was a new attidute to the realation… Read more

The paper is a confrontation of Sartre's and Foucault's views on subject. The author tries to avoid simplifications which often appear in the commentaries on this issue. In its first part the paper therefore presents the authentic attitudes of both philosophers. In its second part Foucault's criticism od Sartres conception of subject is given, concerning the… Read more

The essay aims to show, taking as examples the works of famous existential philosophers, that the various conceptions of the authentic and the non-authentic had been an invariant issues of the existential thinking. This process ended in so called conference (reconciliation) of these originally antithetical attitudes. The price existentialism had to pay for this… Read more