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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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