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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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Lautréamont's Songs of Maldoror in the critical discourse from Breton to Blanchot
Nitschová, Eva ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
Lautréamont's Songs of Maldoror in the critical discourse from Breton to Blanchot This thesis presents four different approaches to the work of Isidore Ducasse: in the texts of André Breton, Léon Pierre-Quint, Gaston Bachelard and Maurice Blanchot we observe the critical view of the Songs of Maldoror beginning to shape in the first half of the twentieth century. While the surrealists tend to adore Lautréamont uncritically, allowing no actual evaluation of his work, the other authors try to review his work, not limiting their commentary to enthusiastic praise. Pierre-Quint considers Songs to be an expression of a revolt in the first place, the contents being Maldoror's revolt against God, and the form being Lautréamont's revolt against the conventional use of language. Bachelard utilizes another approach: through a single topic - the bestiary of the Songs - he analyzes the element that in his opinion determines the characteristic animality of Lautréamont's work. Finally, according to Blanchot, the Songs of Maldoror is the ultimate reflection of Lautréamont's life and the writing process itself his way to deal with the traumas of childhood and adolescence. The final chapter compares the different concepts and evaluates the evolution that Lautréamont criticism has gone through from Breton to Blanchot.
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ln the tension of contrasts - the reception of G.K. Chesterton in the Czech culture between WW1 and WW2
Lukavec, Jan ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Med, Jaroslav (referee) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
I distinguished several contradictory aspects of Chesterton o s work: polysemiotics - ideological monosemiotics, movement to negation of reality and order - movement to affirmation of reality and order. Different interpretations emphasized unilateraly m relation to different horizons of expectation individua! aspects of Chesterton o s work. Chesterton's reception in Czechoslovakia was very heterogeneous. "The Pragmatic Generation" (Karel Čapek, Ferdinand Peroutka, Miroslav Rutte) read Chesterton in the pragmatic context (Chesterton was praisefully quoted by William James, but abroad he was not taken for pragmatist, neither by himself). Through influence of these authors was the interpretation of Chesterton as pragmatist quite expanded by us (Arne Novák). Peroutka looked for basis for his liberalism by Chesterton (Chesterton was more conservative, and they both had sympathies to socialism), and Catholic Chesterton was one of his most cited authors, on the other hand Peroutka fought against the Catholic Church and Chesterton's religious attitudes Peroutka left out. His reception was very selective and it is a good example of creative misreading. Rutte estimated Chesterton as a founder of pragmatic aesthetics. Čapek was inspired with both political and fictitious work of Chesterton. Chesterton was for all of...
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Human essence in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy
Nitsche, Martin ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Ladislav (referee) ; Michálek, Jiří (referee)
The doctoral thesis Human Essence in Heidegger`s Contributions to Philosophy pursues two aims: 1. to analyse the concept of human essence in the key-work of Heidegger`s posthumously published writings, in Contributions to Philosophy; 2. to consider the possibility of using of this analysis as a way to entrance the complete interpretation of Contributions. The thesis has three preparative sections. In the first one the Heidegger`s critique of the anthropology is analysed and interpreted as his reference to the anthropomorphy of world`s relation structures. The possibility of thematizing the relation structures is methodological based on phenomenology. This is the main topic of the second section, that reads Heidegger`s accent to the concept of teh between (das Zwischen) as a way of phenomenological approach to intentionality. The third section analyses Heidegger`s conception of intentionality of relation between the being and humans in the concept of the Dasein from Being and Time and its reinterpretation in the thinking of Contributions. The central part of the thesis has two sections. The fourth (in total order) section interprets the concept of `being - t/here`(das Da-sein) as the notion for central-structured field of the relationship between the being and humans. It analyses the general dynamisms, by...
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ln the tension of contrasts - the reception of G.K. Chesterton in the Czech culture between WW1 and WW2
Lukavec, Jan ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Med, Jaroslav (referee) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
I distinguished several contradictory aspects of Chesterton o s work: polysemiotics - ideological monosemiotics, movement to negation of reality and order - movement to affirmation of reality and order. Different interpretations emphasized unilateraly m relation to different horizons of expectation individua! aspects of Chesterton o s work. Chesterton's reception in Czechoslovakia was very heterogeneous. "The Pragmatic Generation" (Karel Čapek, Ferdinand Peroutka, Miroslav Rutte) read Chesterton in the pragmatic context (Chesterton was praisefully quoted by William James, but abroad he was not taken for pragmatist, neither by himself). Through influence of these authors was the interpretation of Chesterton as pragmatist quite expanded by us (Arne Novák). Peroutka looked for basis for his liberalism by Chesterton (Chesterton was more conservative, and they both had sympathies to socialism), and Catholic Chesterton was one of his most cited authors, on the other hand Peroutka fought against the Catholic Church and Chesterton's religious attitudes Peroutka left out. His reception was very selective and it is a good example of creative misreading. Rutte estimated Chesterton as a founder of pragmatic aesthetics. Čapek was inspired with both political and fictitious work of Chesterton. Chesterton was for all of...
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