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Rationality Vs. Conflict: Radical Democracy and its Critique of Deliberative Democracy
Perović, Jovana ; Bíba, Jan (advisor) ; Znoj, Milan (referee)
Student in her thesis focuses on the work of the Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe and her contribution in the field of democratic theory. The first part of the thesis will examine key concepts of radical democracy: the concept of the political, antagonism, agonism, hegemony, etc. These theoretical concepts will be then applied to the current debate about the nature of democracy (with a focus on deliberative democracy). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Notions of Agonism - Agonistic Pluralism in the works of Chantal Mouffe and John Gray
Šíma, Jan ; Bíba, Jan (advisor) ; Znoj, Milan (referee)
Notions of Agonism - Agonistic Pluralism in the works of Chantal Mouffe and John Gray Abstract A part of political theory, which considers conflict to be a constitutive feature of politics, is known under the term agonism. The aim of this thesis is to introduce two representatives of agonist theory who nevertheless don't share the same ideological basis - Chantal Mouffe and John Gray. The first part of this thesis is thus devoted to theoreticians who influenced these authors and developed ideas which can help us to easily grasp their notions of agonism. In the case of Chantal Mouffe, we find an influence of Carl Schmitt as well as the need to settle with previous marxist tradition, while liberal agonism of John Gray develops from a critical evaluation of the liberal tradition and from the consequences of value pluralism in the works on Isaiah Berlin. In the next part, this thesis will focus on arguments used by both authors in order to challenge the political theory of John Rawls and on the way in which they distance themselves from his communitarian critics. At the end of this thesis I will confront the positions of both of these authors with the intention to discover to what extent their thought results in two different conceptions of politics.
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Rationality Vs. Conflict: Radical Democracy and its Critique of Deliberative Democracy
Perović, Jovana ; Bíba, Jan (advisor) ; Znoj, Milan (referee)
Student in her thesis focuses on the work of the Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe and her contribution in the field of democratic theory. The first part of the thesis will examine key concepts of radical democracy: the concept of the political, antagonism, agonism, hegemony, etc. These theoretical concepts will be then applied to the current debate about the nature of democracy (with a focus on deliberative democracy). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Termite behaviour and polyethisms during colony defence
Homolka, Petr ; Šobotník, Jan (advisor) ; Straka, Jakub (referee)
My bachelor thesis deals with the various defensive adaptations of termites, not only in specialized caste of defenders, the soldiers, but also in members of other castes. Termites are the eldest group of eusocial insects on the planet and their defence systems are indeed impressive. I tried to describe the defensive strategies in general, morphological, anatomical and behavioral adaptations of termites to defence, and also major termites enemies. At the end I also sum up the knowledge on polyethism, which should be the aim of my future thesis.
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