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Bohuslaus Balbin - a Literary Scholar, Teacher, Hagiographer and Historian
Svatoš, Martin
The lecture presents the important Czech Jesuit 17th century scholar Bohuslaus Balbinus as a writer, literary scholar, teacher of 'humaniora', hagiographer and historiographer of Bohemia. Mainly a summary of his hagiographic and historic works will be given; these will be clarified as a phenomenon of Baroque patriotism of Czech catholic scholars in the 17 century.
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Introduction
Drozenová, Wendy
The introduction to the collection of papers from the student conference 'Ethics and Science; Ethical Dilemmas in Science' organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of Ostrava University in Ostrava explains the structure of the book and the subjects of the papers. In the first part it gives information of the development and the main themes in ethics of science.
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Antiquity in the Inscriptive Culture of the Czech Lands
Kepartová, Jana
Author informs of the database that will contain inscriptions from the Czech lands that have something to do with antiquity. The aim of this longterm project is to gradually document and analyse the heritage of antiquity in the epigraphic culture of the Czech Lands from the first inscriptive documents to the present, regardless of whether or not the heritage is conscious or unconscious. The outcome of the entire project will be studies on 'Nachleben / the second life' of the ancient world in inscriptions in the Czech Lands, i.e. an area to which insufficient attention has been paid so far. Only in this phase of the project will the ways that antiquity had been getting into Czech inscriptions be studied. This second life of antiquity in our country will be confronted with the heritage of antiquity in the epigraphic culture of other Central European countries.
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For history of exhibitions. Retro-perspective, archive and migration of forms
Císař, Karel
In her 'View of Modernism,' the groundbreaking study from 1972, Rosalind Krauss takes on the work of the critic Clement Greenberg. Forty years later, Krauss' Under Blue Cup (2011) challenges Catherine David, the curator of documenta X. This change in Krauss's choice of opponents is not incidental and testifies to the widening of art-historical research. David approached the documenta X exhibition (1997) as a cinematographic sequence of artworks, questioning the 'white cube' of the traditional museum and the politics of identity, which Krauss's book defends. The fact that Krauss decided to test her views against a curator rather than a fellow critic or art historian is even more significant. It shows the transformation of art, a process which Krauss herself helped to bring about in the 1970s. As the artwork gave up on the specificity of its means of expression and started opening up to external conditions, the importance of individual artworks weakened in favour of the exhibition as a whole. This is one of the reasons why the history of contemporary art has increasingly become a history of exhibitions rather than a history of styles and individual artworks.
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Selections of correspondence between Bohuslav Balbin and Alois Hackenschmidt between 1664-1667
Podavka, Ondřej
The lecture contains part of the correspondence between Bohuslav Balbin and the Premonstratensian Alois Hackenschmidt. The initial part deals with Hackenschmnidt's life and working in the Tepla monastery and summarizes the contents of the letters. These served to mutual cooperation and information flow and render information about numerous Balbin's works and reactions to them. However, the letters also have a personal level. Then follows a commented translation of three Hacksnschmidt's and one Balbin's letter from the given period.
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Political Marxism on two conceptions of democracy
Brabec, Martin
The article presents an analysis of democracy from the point of view of Political Marxism. Political Marxism is new stream in contemporary Marxism, which is based on the works of American historian Robert Brenner and the Canadian political scientist Ellen Wood. She distinguishes between two conceptions of democracy. The ancient concept of democracy grew out of a historical experience which had conferred a unique civic status on subordinate classes, creating in particular that unprecedented formation, the peasant citizen. Our contemporary concept of democracy, originating not in Athenian democracy but in European feudalism and culminating in liberal capitalism, with the major milestones, like Magna Carta and 1688, marks the ascent of the propertied classes. In this case, it is not a question of peasants liberating themselves from the political domination of their overlords but lords themselves asserting their independent powers against the claims of monarchy.
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Ethics and Science. Ethical Dilemmas in Science
Drozenová, Wendy
Collection of papers from the conference organized by the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ostrava, on the 23rd April 2013. The papers are divided into two parts: Contemporary Tasks of Ethics of Science and Philosophical and Methodological Problems, each containing four texts, and one more study is enclosed at the end. The book is supplemented by a preface, program of the conference, a report, pictures and a note by the organizer.
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