Publication details
Česká filozofie 60. let a krásná literatura
| Title in English | Czech Philosophy of the 1960s and belles-lettres |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Podoby filozofovania včera a dnes |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Czech Philosophy |
| Description | The most fundamental problem of Czech philosophy of the 1960s was the concept of man. Czech culture, film, theater and especially belles-lettres had been focusing on the existential problems of man since the 1950s, showing man as a complex personality irreducible to one dimension, and portraying substantial moments of human existence, such as grotesquerie, tragedy, laughter, absurdity, death, conscience, moral responsibility, body and carnality. As a result, they subsequently became an interpretative fundament for Czech philosophy. Jan Patočka, Karel Kosík and other Czech philosophers challenged the official portrayal of man and epoch with a different view of these concepts. |
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