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Švarcová, Zdenka: Legenda Komači. Ono no Komači – básně a básnířka v divadelních hrách nó. Praha : Amu – KANT. Edice Disk velká řada – svazek 41, 2018, 140 s. (Review)

Anna A. Hlaváčová

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

Lidská práva: nesouměřitelnost chápání práva v antice a moderní západní společnosti (Human Rights: Incommensurability of Comprehension of Right in Antiquity and in Modern Western Society)

Jana Holíková

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

Human rights are product of a legal system which originated in Western culture. Therefore, any attempt at tracking the basic foundations of human rights into antiquity is problematic. Every term is related to its conceptual scheme. If we want to assess whether human rights have their basis in…

Reflexe Aristotelových pojmů FRONÉSIS a THEÓRIA v Patočkově třetím pohybu existence (Reflection of Aristotle’s Terms FRONESIS and THEORIA in Patočka’s Third Movement of Existence)

Lenka Jedličková

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

Jan Patočka, who drew inspiration for his own philosophy not only in the important phenomenologist Hannah Arendt but also in Greek philosophy, at one point in his philosophical development, surprisingly turned away from Socrates and Plato and inclined to Aristotle and his concept of action. As with…

Poznámky k vzťahu medzi textom a realitou (Remarks on Relation between Text and Reality)

Ľubomír Plesník

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

Based on a discursive reflection of postmodern approaches, the study focuses on the nature of the relationship between the (artistic) text and reality, as well as the basic categories related to this issue. The author articulates a (hypo)thesis concerning the homological relationship between the…

Perzistencia a identita osoby (Persistence and Personal Identity))

Juraj Odorčák

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

The problem of personal identity is a well-known philosophical conundrum that depends on the presupposed contradiction between identity and change of a person. Identity is usually characterized by the requirements of sameness in qualities of a person. The change of a person is generally determined…

We Are All Loose and Popular. An Argument in Support of Loose and Popular Identity

Lasse Nielsen

Ostium, Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2020 · Slovak · DOAJ

Joseph Butler stated that identity can be seen in two ways: a loose and popular one, and a strict and philosophical one. In this paper I will argue that every identity must be seen in the former since it is impossible to have identity in a strict and philosophical sense. I aim to show this by…

Uses of “the Pluriverse”: Cosmos, Interrupted – or the Others of Humanities

Thomas Clément Mercier

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

In this paper, I engage with the motif of “the pluriverse” such as it has increasingly been used in the past few years in several strands of critical humanities associated with the so-called “ontological turn”: science and technology studies (Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers), critical geography and…

O masách pre masy (Review on: Miroslav Marcelli: Myslenie v sieti. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2018, 98 s.)

Alžbeta Kuchtová

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Svätá nadprirodzená mimoriadne oslnivá inteligentná láskavosť duše (Básnické litánie ako zápis antropologickej situácie moderného človeka) (Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul. Poetic litany as a record of the anthropological situation of modern man)

Jana Juhásová

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 4 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

The aim of the study is to terminologically describe the genealogical aspects of litany (originally a Christian prayer genre) and subsequent literary litanies inspired by them (Ch. Baudelaire, A. Breton, V. Nezval, F. Halas, A. Ginsberg). Reading the texts of modern world lyric poetry shows that…

Libertarian Marxism: Reality or Illusion?

Adam Lovasz

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Over the past few years, several works have been written relating to the issue of libertarian socialism. In my presentation, I seek to critically investigate two contemporary systematic attempts at a distinctly libertarian reading of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ work. Theodore A. Burczak’s 2006…

Ideál Sokrates (Review on: Zuzana Zelinová: Paideia v sokratovskej filozofii. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018, 196 s.)

Matúš Porubjak

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Úvod do kritické teorie sportu (Introduction to Critical Theory of Sport)

Vojtěch Ondráček

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Alienation of mass of fans, exploitation and commodification of professional athletes, mechanization of physicality to maximize sport performance and overall analysis of sport as an ideological tool. Through these themes, in the 1970s and 1980s, Marxist philosophers in Germany, France and Britain…

Úzkosť ako kolektívna základná nálada (Grundstimmung) novoveku (Anxiety as a collective ground-mood of modernity)

Beatrix Susanne Lepis

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Moods play a major role in Heidegger’s thought, as they open up the world to Dasein and permeate its entire existence, its possibilities of action, its very access to the world. In recent years, much attention has been devoted to Heidegger’s concept of moods which has been adapted for various…

Sókratés v myslení Hannah Arendtovej I. Filozofia v službách plurality (Socrates in the Thought of Hannah Arendt I. Philosophy in the Service of Plurality)

Michal Zvarík

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

The article deals with Hannah Arendt’s early rendition of Socrates’ philosophy in the essay Socrates. As is generally known, she was critical towards Western tradition of philosophy influenced by the trial and death of Socrates, since it overlooked specific political experiences and subjected the…

Viatori in continens: Intelektuální kruh rodiny Sidney a střední Evropa (Andreas Dudith, Johannes Sambucus) (Viatori in continens: Sidney’s Circle and the Central European Intellectuals (Andreas Dudith, Johannes Sambucus))

Martina Kastnerová

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 4 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Intellectual and literary circles, communities, and networks formed a significant feature of Renaissance and early modern literary culture, playing thus a crucial part in nurturing intellectual communication and the circulation of knowledge. My contribution here is focused on the particular…

Kozmológia kozmogónie (Eliška Luhanová: Zrození světa: kosmologie básníka Hésioda. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart 2014.) Review

Matúš Porubjak

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 1 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Bilingvizmus zo psychodiagnostickej perspektívy: Môže skresliť jazyková úroveň klienta výsledok psychologického testovania? (Bilingualism from Psychodiagnostical Perspective: May the Client’s Language Proficiency Alter the Results of Psychological Tests?)

Kinga Izsóf Jurásová; Erika Szalatnyaiová

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 4 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

This study aims to highlight the need to adjust the language of psychodiagnostics with the client’s first language. It covers empirical findings verifying the hypothesis that bilingual respondents achieve worse results than monolingual respondents in verbal subtests measuring their cognitive…

Aurelius Augustinus o gramatike, dialektike a hudbe (Aurelius Augustine on grammar, dialectics and music)

Miroslava Trogová

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

The present study analyses Saint Augustine’s impact on the formation of school education based on the concept of seven general subjects called septem artes liberales which were taken from the late antiquity. It reflects Augustine’s less known writings on two disciplines of trivium – grammar and…

A. N. Whitehead o vzdelávaní a náboženstve (A. N. Whitehead on Education and Religion)

Štefan Zolcer

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

The philosophy of education and the philosophy of religion are two different intellectual fields that are not often thought of as intimately connected. However in the process philosophy of A. N. Whitehead they are closely related to each other. In this paper I introduce Whitehead’s ideas on…

Od idealizovanej vízie k degradovanému objektu: obraz hrdiniek cez prizmu rozprávača v románoch abbého Prévosta (From idealized vision to disgraced object: image of female characters through the narrator’s prism in abbé Prévost’s novels)

Andrea Tureková

Ostium, Vol. 15 No. 1 · 2019 · Slovak · DOAJ

Prévost’s novels are all written in the form of memoirs and thus favor one character: a narrator-hero who is recalling his past love adventures. The main subject of this narrative is the female character, to which the reader has access exclusively through the view of the male narrator. The most…