Volume 80 (2025), 5
Original Articles: The Human Being in the Coordinates of Symbolic Structures
(Original title: Towards a Phenomenology of Rupture)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 682 - 696.Abstract
What makes phenomena such as birth, death, creation or fate specifically “limit phenomena” within Husserl’s phenomenology is not simply their difficulty, but also that they seem to threaten phenomenology as a transcendentalist project. As a transcendentalist project, phenomenology tries to overcome contingency by seeking the apodictic and necessary, leading Husserl… Read more
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(Original title: The Experience of Strangeness and the Possibility of Manifestations in Social Roles with Reference to A. Schutz and H. Plessner)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 697 - 711.Abstract
The aim of the article is to describe the peculiar situation of a stranger and a homecomer from the perspective of what they have at their disposal and how they occur in social relations. In this regard, firstly, we explore the configurations of the experience, and secondly, the forms of performing roles in private and public space, diplomacy and tact. This is… Read more
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(Original title: Sacrum and Holiday: The Case of Tragedy in Jan Patočka’s Thought)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 712 - 725.Abstract
The article aims to elaborate the meaning of “holiday” in the context of Jan Patočka’s late philosophy. The article addresses two aspects of Patočka’s work. First, it presents Patočka’s concept of the sacrum and its relation to the question of authenticity and modernity. Second, it connects these considerations to Patočka’s earlier texts on Greek tragedy. According… Read more
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(Original title: Topoanalysis and Cultural Images: The Case of the cul-de-sac)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 726 - 739.Abstract
The study deals with the possibilities of using the topoanalytical method applied to cultural images of urban spaces. As a guiding example, the phenomenon of a specific space, such as the cul-de-sac, is highlighted here. The author shows how the metaphor of the cul-de-sac as a description of a dead-end situation developed. It was historically imagined in three modes… Read more
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(Original title: E. Cassirer a krajina ako multisenzorická a časovo-priestorová syntéza)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 740 - 753.Abstract
The study focuses on the issue of landscape developed in twentieth-century German philosophy. In addition to Georg Simmel and Joachim Ritter, Ernst Cassirer also devoted himself to this topic. The aim is to prove that Cassirer is part of a line of thinking drawing mainly on the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant and landscape painting. At the same time his theory of… Read more
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