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.
The study focuses on the Czech nationalism in the first years of interwar Czechoslovakia and explores in detail the particular figure of Jude-Bolshevism, as it was used in the Czech national discourse. Use of the term of the Jewish "race", which was supposed to strive for power, was to help in uniting the national society and discard everything, which did not fit within the framework of uniformly represented "national inerest". Stigmatizing bolshevism (communism) by its presumed "Jewishness" was used as an intelligible component of the identity language and helped to preserve the Czech "national unity" as a main pillar of the newly founded state. The revolutionary project of the radical left therefore could have been positioned outside of this framework and thereby displaced out of the unified national collective. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
Vážené čtenářky, vážení čtenáři, ustavování hranic – distinkcí a demarkací – je politikum, toto tvrzení je v oblasti genderových a feministických studií truismem. Rozleptávání zdánlivě stabilních diskriminačních znaků bylo ostatně jednou z klíčových feministických snah a je dodnes předmětem mnoha diskursivně -materiálních bojů. Jestliže se feministky na počátku soustřeďovaly zejména na pohlaví a gender, postupně se přidávaly hranice další, založené na sexuální orientaci, konstrukci „rasových“ a etnických hranic, socioekonomickém statusu, geografické lokaci a další., Marcela Linková, Iva Šmídová., and Obsahuje bibliografii