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.The Truth Needs a Body. The Broken Mirror of Modernity in theWork of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Sirovátka, Štěpán ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee) ; Kolařík, Karel (referee)
The dissertation deals with decadent poetics from the point of view of the so-called "macromodern" (inspired by the collection of Silvio Vietta and Dirk Kemper Ästhetische Moderne in Europa, based on the historical concept of "longue durée" by the French historian Fernando Braudel). The phenomena of modernism or modern poetics are treated with regard to continuity with the whole modernization process and the Enlightenment project. The modernization process is divided into "rational modernity" (Enlightenment science, positivism) and "aesthetic modernity" (modern art from German Romanticism around 1800 and dating back to postmodernism), where the latter one creates a critical corrective to the rational modernity, and thus creates the "broken mirror" of modernity. The work is based on Adornoʼs conception of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and negative dialectics, but also on other post-Kantian philosophers, such as Husserl, Bergson, Deleuze or Patočka. The dissertation deals with the whole work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic in terms of a specific, partial "micromodern" implementation of this process, i.e. the Czech decadence. In this context, his reception of "anti-enlightenment" phenomena is examined, such as the phenomenon of corporeality and affectivity, Baroque mysticism (Theresa of Avila or John...
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The Eternal Boyhood of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Kolařík, Karel ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Lishaugen, Roar (referee) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The thesis attempts to describe the life and work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic through an analysis of his lifestyle, i.e. the way in which he organized, embellished and individualized his life. Karásek sought to shape his existence as an artwork, in accordance with the inspirational concepts of the contemporary and antecedent thinkers and artists (e.g. Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and Maurice Maeterlinck). He accented its integrity and orientation towards beauty. In accord with his aesthetic vision (and his literary work) Karásek conditioned beauty with sadness and pain and attempted to emphasize melancholic beauty, unity in disunion. For that purpose he would accentuate particularly the disintegrative, critical elements, evoking the impression of unsuccessful, self-destructive endeavor to reach life's high ideal. This corresponded with his tragic concept of the artist immolating himself for his Art. I approach Karásek's lifestyle through the use of the terms youth and (eternal) boyhood, which Karásek himself employed as symbols of mournfully beautiful existence in his literary work. I define a youth - in accordance with the romantic and symbolist interpretation - as a person at odds with reality (contemporary truths, customs and rules), a solitary, unique being, trying to construct a new world - only...
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The Eternal Boyhood of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Kolařík, Karel ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Lishaugen, Roar (referee) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The thesis attempts to describe the life and work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic through an analysis of his lifestyle, i.e. the way in which he organized, embellished and individualized his life. Karásek sought to shape his existence as an artwork, in accordance with the inspirational concepts of the contemporary and antecedent thinkers and artists (e.g. Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and Maurice Maeterlinck). He accented its integrity and orientation towards beauty. In accord with his aesthetic vision (and his literary work) Karásek conditioned beauty with sadness and pain and attempted to emphasize melancholic beauty, unity in disunion. For that purpose he would accentuate particularly the disintegrative, critical elements, evoking the impression of unsuccessful, self-destructive endeavor to reach life's high ideal. This corresponded with his tragic concept of the artist immolating himself for his Art. I approach Karásek's lifestyle through the use of the terms youth and (eternal) boyhood, which Karásek himself employed as symbols of mournfully beautiful existence in his literary work. I define a youth - in accordance with the romantic and symbolist interpretation - as a person at odds with reality (contemporary truths, customs and rules), a solitary, unique being, trying to construct a new world - only...
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