This text aims to interpret human corporeal being as a part of the system of modern industrial civilization. The corporeality of human existence is explained in the context of its integration into the complex web of biological and cultural processes, by which it is shaped on the one hand and which it shapes on the other hand. Our situation in the world is primarily conditioned by our corporeal presence in it. But even as natural corporeal beings we are today part of an artificial space built by industrial technology. This space is called the technosphere in this text and is conceived as a global sphere, analogically to the atmosphere or biosphere. The technosphere covers all the planet in the same way as the biosphere does. As a product of natural corporeal beings, interwoven via their corporeality into the whole of planetary life, it is itself originally a product of the biosphere. Nevertheless it shows a very strong and clear tendency to rule it in a parasitic way. The notion of the technosphere is therefore formulated in this text as a hyperparasitical net with no stable power center and no plan or will to control life, but with the urge and need for self-sustainability common to all living systems. The text also explores the notion of corporeality as a fully integrated part of the technosphere, which is controlled and shaped by it (and shapes it) as its living source.
The study describes and develops the basic motifs of Nancy’s essay L’Intrus. Nancy’s philosophical reflection of the experience of a person who underwent a heart transplant is compared to Merleau-Ponty’s chiasmatic conception of embodiment which acts as a basis for the description of relations between one’s own and another’s, the mutual confusion, intermingling and displacement of which is interpreted in L’Intrus. The polarity of one’s own and not one’s own, played out in connection with the transplantation of a donated organ, is sharpened by the polarity of life and death, which is the ultimate theme here. Despite all the sharpness of this polarity, the border between life and death in the context of modern thinking and modern medical technology is becoming difficult to grasp as is shown, in an exemplary fashion, by Agamben’s reflections on the concept of bare life.
What significant role does the body play in Patočka’s phenomenology? This study identifies the main characteristics of Patočka’s conception of body over the course of the development of his thought. The body is the place in which the life of consciousness is (magically) joined with the world of ob¬jects, and at the same time it is the setting (but not the means) of appearing. The study demonstrates that the key problem of Patočka’s phenomenology of embodiment is the one of whether body can be reduced to a given fini¬tude, or whether it has the potential to go beyond the given, thus possessing its own kind of in finity. The appreciation of the body in the late Patočka assumes a methodological point of departure in motion. With the support of this point of departure, we may defend the thesis that the whole perfor¬mance of sense is bodily, although neither body nor consciousness can be identified with the final basis of appearing.
Tematínské vrchy se nacházejí ve střední části Považského Inovce, tedy výběžku Západních Karpat na Slovensku. Jde o velmi cenné území, v němž lze nalézt větší množství teplomilných a suchomilných prvků panonských a submediteránních, než karpatských elementů dealpinského a demontánního charakteru. Vyskytuje se zde řada cenných druhů rostlin, např. chrpa čekánek tematínský (Centaurea scabiosa subsp. tematinensis) či chudina drsnoplodá (Draba lasiocarpa), i živočichů, jako plž chlupatka jižní (Petasina filicina), velké druhy cikád nebo modrásek slovenský (Polyommatus slovacus). Oblast proto chrání 3 rezervace a je navržena do soustavy Natura 2000. and The Tematín Hills are located in the central part of the Povážský Inovec Mts., the projection of the Western Carpathians into Slovakia, where you can find more thermophilous and xerophilous Pannonian and sub-Mediterranean elements than Carpathian ones. A lot of valuable wild plant species occur there, e.g. the Tematín Hills Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa subsp. tematinensis). Among wild animals, large cicada species or the Slovak Common Blue (Polyommatus slovacus) can be mentioned.