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Moral, social and psychological issues in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Macura, Michal ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee) ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor)
The works of Robert Louis Stevenson, as widely varied as The Treasure Island, "Markheim" and The Ebb-Tide are deeply immersed in social, psychological and moral issues peculiar not only to the Victorian age but also relevant to our own time. His is the very benign, unpretentious and fatherly view of mankind common to all great thinkers and insightful artists. In his prose he explores the character of human mind with its deformities and incapacities as well as its virtues, for to be true to life is, in Stevenson's own words, much more estimable than to idealize it. An honest critique of social illnesses is worth a great deal more than mere show of goodness, prudence and morality often required by the publishers and expected by the reading public of Victorian era. The present thesis concerns itself both with Stevenson's theoretical concepts and the practice of his writing. It discusses the motivation, realization and reception of the prevalent themes of Stevenson's prose: duality of one's character, internal struggle against social pressure, assumed respectability and criticism of oppressive policies. Along with these, it also deals with the man's need to stay truthful to his nature, a concept Stevenson defends with some energy both in his essays and his work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Filla's postwar School of Monumental Painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague
Patková, Lenka ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
An important figure in Czech art history Emil Filla (1882-1953), painter, graphic artist, sculptor, organizer of artistic life in interwar Czechoslovakia, art theorist and critic, at the end of his life, got one more new feature again beneficial to the entire Czech cultural scene. After his return from the concentration camp at Buchenwald, where he spent all six years of war, he became a professor at the newly established Academy of arts, architecture and design in Prague. His atelier of monumental painting has become a sort of post-war phenomenon. Up to one hundred students have undergone his training in a few years (he worked at the school 1945-1953). In this unsettled period after World War II generations retarded by the war were blend with the generations who have just reached the age to take university training. That is why postwar years are rich in celebrities. Emil Filla, for his extraordinary access to the education of young artists, his personal charisma and education, also brought into his art studio a number of real personalities, who, after the beginnings of the separate tracks artists, shaped the image of Czech art in the second half of the twentieth century. Pedagogical activities offered Filla space where he could ideally integrate their practical art activities with theoretical knowledge and...
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Loe Strauss and the American Neoconservatism
Blažek, Jiří ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis, "Leo Strauss and American Neoconservatism," focuses on the description of endeavours to influence the USA foreign policy by particular USA policymakers who believed in and had studied the philosophy of Leo Strauss. The thesis describes especially those students who later got on the American political scene. Furthermore, the author follows a process of influencing the American politics by various think tanks and also follows a possible sequence of American neoconservatism on thoughts incorporated in the work and teaching of Leo Strauss.
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On Dynamics of "New Wars": Clausewitzian Analysis of Factors Related to Dynamics of Armed Conflicts in Post-Communist Area
Kučera, Tomáš ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bureš, Oldřich (referee)
Armed conflict that occurred after the end of the Cold War in the territory of former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union belong to the so cold phenomenon of new wars. New wars are said to differ from the old ones in its aims, methods of warfare, and in ways how they are iv financed. In spite of these supposed changes in fundamental character of war, a conflict dynamics - defined by intensity, rapidity of escalation, and conflict duration - of armed conflicts in post-communist area corresponds with classic notion of war, as it was described by Carl von Clausewitz. According to the theory based on Clausewitz's work conflict course can be seen as a resultant of three forces - group hostility, ability to build up and maintain military organisation, and rationality of political leadership. Group hostility works as driving power toward very escalated and long-lasting armed conflict and political leadership that realises aim of the war and its consequences for political relations in the aftermath works as a counterforce to hostility and therefore attempt to maintain intensity of violence within limits drawn by political aims. Without quick build up of a military organisation there cannot be supposed a rapid conflict escalation at the beginning of an armed conflict. The resultant of all the three forces, which reach in...
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The Bridge
Medek, Lukáš ; Mariánek, Michal (referee) ; Zubek, Petr (advisor)
The Bridge: Pong Evolution describes the evolution of visuality in computer games in the symbolic way. The piece focuses on the most common elements used in graphics, gameplay, styles and technologies both in history and nowadays. Then it uses them in one single evolving environment. The work is also criticizing some contemporary (and past) trends commonly used in video games.
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The other as the other body
Čáp, Bohumil ; Kouba, Petr (referee) ; Čapek, Jakub (advisor)
The work poses the question of how is it possible to experience another human. This so-called problem of intersubjectivity is opened within the phenomenological tradition, specifically in the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre. Most of the attention is, therefore, dedicated to "Other Selves and the Human World", a chapter of Phenomenology of Perception. The main goal is to disclose the nature of the solution presented by Merleau- Ponty and to submit it to a critique. Merleau-Ponty's account of intersubjectivity as intercorporeity shows coherent provided the overcoming of the subject-object dualism is carried further than it is in Phenomenology of Perception. An indication of the direction in which this could be achieved was found in Merleau-Ponty's later The Visible and the Invisible. Experience of another human is, thus, possible to explain if we overcome the dualism of the individual and the general.
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Goethe's and Schiller's ballads. A critical comparison of translations into Czech
Böswart, Štěpán ; Svoboda, Tomáš (referee) ; Veselá, Gabriela (advisor)
The Czech tradition of translation from German comprises a long period of translating ballads by the Classics Goethe and Schiller. Since the middle of the 19th century, there have been many attempts to deal with their difficult subject matter in the praxis of translation. However, there haven't been any studies in translation research that would analyze the original ballads and the translations together and respecting the context both in the German and the Czech cultural and literary tradition. The following text would like to offer a translation analysis and a translation evaluation of the prominent examples of ballads by Goethe and Schiller concerning the following aspects: 1. Which poems have been translated? What was the notion of ballad used by the diverse interpretors and how has it developed from the 18th century up to the present day? This part of the text concerns the genre theory. 2. Were the ballads central to the reception of the German Classics? Was it drama, prose or poetry that predominated? This topic refers to the mapping of reception of Goethe and Schiller in our country. 3. Which aspects of the ballads do Czech translators emphasize? Do they underline the religious and didactic aspects of the text? Do they stress the morality? Or is it the individual character and the story that draws...
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Essay on enthusiasm - political critique of enthusiastic aesthetics
Stejskal, Jakub ; Ševčík, Miloš (referee) ; Zuska, Vlastimil (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is to critically examine the notion of enthusiasm as an aesthetic concept and to prove its persisting impact on contemporary aesthetic theory, especially on the work of Jean-François Lyotard. Enthusiastic aesthetics explains aesthetic experience as a strong sensuous experience, which admits of no intellectual participation. The power of the experience is the proof of its non-human source; a source that transcends the scope of human understanding, whether it be called God, the Other, the Thing, or Matter. Because of his/her passive role of an unconscious recipient of this power, the subject cannot actively participate in the actual aesthetic reception. Such a treatment of the aesthetic experience is perilous (especially from a political point of view) because the subject completely succumbs to a power the source of which he/she cannot grasp, hoping that the sensuous ecstasy, which is the symptom of that power, is a proof of its "divine" origin.
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Philosophy and Ethics of Ladislav Klíma
Kratochvíl, Jan ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
The thesis are focused on the Czech author and philosopher Ladislav Klíma. The core topics are analyses of the philosophical systém, which is called Egosolisms, created by him. In the first part I have dissected the method thanks to which Klíma reached his view. The theses take into special consideration his "universal sense" and time. The thesis also mention Klíma's transition from theoretical thinking to formulations of particular ethical principles which the author also practised during his life. Furthermore the whole system is examined from a conceivable point of view and some contradictions are revealed. These contradictions are pointing out that more likely we are handeling with a particular confession rather than a effort to bring a certain inner cohesive systém of statements. The thesis are also researching to what degree do Klima's thoughts come from authors in whose connections it is spoke about Klima's work. The comperation basically is between Klima and Schopenhauer's conception of will and Nietzsche's conception of time. In the second part I was mainly dealing with Klima's ethic conclusions and suggestions, his criticism of Christianity and his approach to death and mortality. There is a tendency to show that despite of the verbal assaulting book Klima takes over a lot from religious forms of...
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Aesthetics of Loathing and Disgust in the Works of Amélie Nothomb
Izdná, Petra ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
Amélie Nothomb, écrivain belge contemporain, vedette des médias occidentaux, est un phénomene sociologique tres intéressant. Tout le monde connait son visage et c'est sa personnalité, avant tout, qui fait vendre. Autant qu'elle est jeune, autant elle est fructueuse et auteur a succes. Bien que ses textes soient remplis de caprices postmodernes, sophistiqués et truffés d'allusions a la littérature classique, ils sont estimés par un lectorat le plus large. Elle est analysée dans le milieu académique et lue par les adolescents. Tandis que les critiques de son oeuvre ne sont pas toujours élogieuses, Amélie Nothomb écrit de vrais best-sellers. Ses romans sont adaptés au cinéma, au théatre et meme a l'opéra {Les Combustibles), et traduits dans le monde entier. Mais évidemment la popularité ne signifie pas toujours les qualités artistiques. En quoi consiste le succes de Nothomb ? Nous avons de bons arguments pour ranger Amélie Nothomb parmi les « auteurs minores ».
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