PHV446 Modern Continental Philosophy: Selected Chapters

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce selected theories of selected figures of the continental philosophical tradition: M. Horkheimer, Th. W. Adorno, M. Foucault, Z. Bauman. Lectures focus on content, presuppositions and impact of the most important books of the aforementioned authors.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to introduce selected concepts of early modern philosophy; to explain their basic problems; to formulate their assumptions and consequences; to reconstruct and to evaluate their arguments; to show their dependency on context; to characterize their historical conditionality.
Syllabus
  • Introduction: Marx
  • 1. Horkheimer – Adorno, Dialectics of the Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason
  • 2. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The Archeology of Knowledge, The History of Sexuality
  • 3. Zygmunt Bauman - The Fluid Modernity, Freedom, Globalization
Literature
  • Adorno-Handbuch : Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Edited by Richard Klein - Johann Kreuzer - Stefan Müller-Doohm. 2., erweiterte und aktualisi. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2019, xv, 711. ISBN 9783476026262. info
  • VEYNE, Paul. Foucault, jeho myšlení, jeho osobnost. Translated by Petr Horák. V českém jazyce vydání p. Praha: Filosofia, 2015, 207 stran. ISBN 9788070074411. info
  • Foucault-Handbuch : Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Edited by Clemens Kammler - Rolf Parr - Ulrich Johannes Schneider - Elke Reinhar. Sonderausgabe. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2014, viii, 454. ISBN 9783476025593. info
  • A companion to Foucault. Edited by Christopher Falzon - Timothy O'Leary - Jana Sawicki. Malden, Mass.: J. Wiley, 2013, xvii, 608. ISBN 9781118325506. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Tekutá láska : o křehkosti lidských pout. Translated by Zuzana Gabajová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2013, 155 s. ISBN 9788020022707. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Tekuté časy : život ve věku nejistoty. Translated by Helena Šolcová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 109 s. ISBN 9788020016560. info
  • HAUSER, Michael. Adorno: moderna a negativita. Vydání první. Praha: Filosofia, 2005, 228 stran. ISBN 8070072237. info
  • The Cambridge companion to Adorno. Edited by Tom Huhn. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xiv, 428. ISBN 0521775000. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Modernita a holocaust. Translated by Jana Ogrocká. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2003, 331 s. ISBN 8086429237. info
  • DREYFUS, Hubert L., Michel FOUCAULT and Paul RABINOW. Michel Foucault : za hranicemi strukturalismu a hermeneutiky. Translated by Jan Hasala - Lucie Nová - Stanislav Polášek - Pavel Toman. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 388 stran. ISBN 9788087054208. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Tekutá modernita. Translated by S. M. Blumfeld. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2002, 343 s. ISBN 8020409661. info
  • JARVIS, Simon. Adorno : a critical introduction. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity, 1998, x, 283. ISBN 9780745611792. info
  • MARCELLI, Miroslav. Michel Foucault, alebo, Stať sa iným. Bratislava: Archa, 1995, 135 s. ISBN 8071150991. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Úvahy o postmoderní době. Translated by Miloslav Petrusek. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1995, 165 s. ISBN 8085850125. info
  • The Cambridge companion to Foucault : Foucault (Variant.). Edited by Gary Gutting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xii, 360 s. ISBN 0-521-40332-4. info
  • CONNERTON, Paul. The tragedy of enlightenment : an essay on the Frankfurt School. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-521-22842-5. info
Teaching methods
lectures, reading
Assessment methods
written exam in IS
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: kombinovaná forma: 16 hodin/semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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