Miloslav BednáÅ
is a senior research at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He teaches as a professor at Charles University, the University of Jan Evangelista PurkynÄ in Ãstà nad Labem, and other universities. He specialises in Czech and international philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of history and politics. He contributes to public debates in the Czech media and is the author of numerous articles on Czech philosophy. His publications include: Smysl Äeské existence: Äeská státnà idea a Masarykova Äeská otázka (The Meaning of Czech Existence: The Idea of the Czech State and Masarykâs Czech Question, Prague 2018); Pohyb a Åád: Pokus o fenomenologickou ontologii (Motion and Order: An Attempt at Phenomenological Ontology, Prague 2018); Äeské myÅ¡lenà (Czech Thought, Prague 1996); and he is the editor and co-author of Idea dÄjin a Palacký jako myslitel (The Idea of History and Palacký as a Thinker, Prague 2019).
Václav BÄlohradský
is a professor of political sociology at the University of Trieste. He taught at the Institute of Philosophy in Genoa, where he was appointed professor of sociology in 1973. He worked for many years with Czech exile magazines and publishers and domestic Czech dissent. He first published his work in Italy, then in Czech with exile publishers, and has been publishing writings in the Czech Republic since 1991. He also publishes work in the UK, the USA, and Canada. He is a regular contributor to Právo Salón, the literary supplement of Právo newspaper. His extensive body of published work includes: PÅirozený svÄt jako politický problém (The Natural World as a Political Problem, Prague 1991); SpoleÄnost nevolnosti (The Society of Malaise, 3rd edition, Prague 2014); MezisvÄty a mezi svÄty (Interworlds and Between Worlds, 2nd enlarged edition, Prague 2013).
Wendy Drozenová
is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. To 2019 she was also an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department of Charles Universityâs Hussite Theological Faculty. She specialises in the study of ethical questions in various contexts, including bioethics and civilisational problems. She is the author of numerous articles and the book ZemÄ je plna tvých tvorů: tÅi studie o vztahu kÅesÅ¥anstvà k pÅÃrodÄ (The Earth is Full of Thy Creatures: Three Studies on the Relationship of Christianity
Otakar A. Funda
is a philosopher, religious studies scholar, university teacher, and former Evangelical minister. He has worked at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University, was a professor at Charles Universityâs Faculty of Education, and lectures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His focal interests are Christianity in religious studies, the philosophy of religion, the history of ancient philosophy, the history of modern philosophy. His philosophical interests are neo-positivism, critical rationalism, critical realism, and processual ontology. He is the author of numerous books and articles published in Czech and international journals. His publications include: Thomas Garrigue Masaryk â sein philosophisches, religiöses und politisches Denken (BernâFrankfurtâLas Vegas 1978); Znavená Evropa umÃrá (A Weary Europe Is Dying, Prague 2000); JežÃÅ¡ a mýtus o Kristu (Jesus and the Myth of Christ, Prague 2007); Když se rákos chvÄje nad hladinou (When a Reed Trembles above the Surface, Prague 2009); Racionalita versus transcendence â spor Hanse Alberta s modernÃmi teology (Rationality versus Transcendence â Hans Albertâs Dispute with Modern Theologians, Prague 2013); K filosofii náboženstvà (On the Philosophy of Religion, Prague 2017).
Vasil Gluchman
is a professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Institute of Ethics and Bioethics, Faculty of Arts, University of PreÅ¡ov (Slovakia), and holds the unesco Chair in Bioethics at the University of PreÅ¡ov (Slovakia). His main field of professional interest is the history of ethics in Slovakia and in Central Europe, consequentialist ethics, bioethics, and applied ethics including professional ethics. He has edited the Ethics of Social Consequences: Philosophical, Applied and Professional Challenges (Newcastle 2018), Morality: Reasoning on Different Approaches (AmsterdamâNew York 2013), Bioethics in Central Europe (PreÅ¡ov 2009), and he is currently the editor of Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe), indexed by Scopus, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Health Care, Medicine and Philosophy published by Springer, as well as being editor of the Central European Value Studies series published by Brill. He has published the following books: Profesijná etika ako etika práce a etika vzÅ¥ahov (Professional Ethics as Work Ethics and the Ethics of Relations, PreÅ¡ov 2014); Idea humanity
Miloš Havelka
is a professor at the Faculty of the Humanities of Charles University and a guest lecturer at tu Chemnitz (at the Institute of European Studies). He has translated the writings of Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf and compiled an anthology of extracts from Ernst Cassirerâs Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and Karl Jaspersâs Chiffren der Transzendenz. His publications include: Spor o smysl Äeských dÄjin 1895â1938 (The Dispute over the Meaning of Czech History 1895â1938, Prague 1995) and Spor o smysl Äeských dÄjin 1938â1989 (The Dispute over the Meaning of Czech History 1938â1989, Prague 2006), a monograph titled DÄjiny a smysl: obsahy, akcenty a posuny âÄeské otázkyâ 1895â1989 (History and Meaning: The Content, Emphases, and Shifts in the Czech Question 1895â1989, Prague 2002), and the books Ideje â dÄjiny â spoleÄnost: studie k historické sociologii vÄdÄnà (Ideas â History â Society: A Study on the Historical Sociology of Knowledge, Brno 2010), and VÃra, kultura a spoleÄnost: náboženské kultury v Äeských zemÃch v 19. a 20. stoletà (Faith, Culture, and Society: Religious Cultures in the Czech Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Äervený Kostelec 2012). He is the co-editor of a collective monograph titled Bürgerliche Gesellschaft und Menschenrechte im östlichen Mitteleuropa (Munich 2015).
Miroslav Hroch
is a professor of general history. Up to 2000 he taught at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where in 1994 he established the Department of General and Comparative History. From 2011 he taught at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. As well as numerous articles, his publications in recent decades include: In the National Interest (Prague 2000); Ethnonationalismus â eine ostmitteleuropäische Erfindun? (Leipzig 2004); European Nations. Explaining Their Formation (London 2015); Comparative Studies in Modern European History: Nation, Nationalism, Social Change (London 2007); Hledánà souvislostà (The Search for Connections, Prague 2017); Studying Nationalism Under Changing Conditions and Regimes. An Intellectual Autobiography (Antwerp 2018).
Karel Hrubý
(1923â2021) was an exiled Czech politician and publicist, the last chairman of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party in exile. He studied philosophy and
Robert KvaÄek
is emeritus professor of history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He specialises in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His primary interests include the history of diplomacy between the world wars and during the Second World War, and cultural history at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century. He is the author of numerous articles and publications dealing with Czech history. His publications have several times earned him the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for non-fiction. His publications include: Diplomaté a ti druzÃ. K dÄjinám diplomacie za 2. svÄtové války (Diplomats and the Others: On the History of Diplomacy during the Second World War, Prague 1988); Prvnà svÄtová válka a Äeská otázka (The First World War and the Czech Question, Prague 2003); Poslednà den. Mnichov â Praha, konec záÅà 1938 (The Last Day. Munich â Prague, the End of September 1938, Prague 2011).
Aleš Prázný
studied theology, philosophy, and religious studies at the Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, and at the Education Faculty, Charles University in Prague. He is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Pardubice. He focuses on the philosophy of education, political philosophy, and ethics, and he has written numerous articles and studies dealing with these subjects. His publications include Výchova jako pÅehodnocovánà hodnot (Education as a Reappraisal of Values, Pardubice 2007); OdpovÄdnost (Responsibility, co-authored with R. PalouÅ¡, Prague 2012); O smyslu politiky. Politické myÅ¡lenà Hannah Arendtové (The Meaning of Politics. The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Pardubice 2014), Modernà univerzita. Ideál a realita (The Modern University. Ideal and Reality, co-authored with J. ChotaÅ¡, T. Hejduk et al., Prague 2015). He is the co-editor and co-author of the book
Jan Svoboda
is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He studied philosophy and German studies (contemporary German literature) at Humboldt University in Berlin. His main interests are in philosophical and social-scientific thought in the Czech Lands in the period between 1800 and 1948. In addition to Masarykâs positive philosophy, Czech positivism, and structuralism (J. L. Fischer), he focuses on the philosophical applications of modern scientific theories and aspects of social, cultural, and political issues in a global context. He has published numerous studies and articles on these subjects. He is co-editor and co-author of the book Interkulturnà vojna a mÃr (Intercultural War and Peace, Prague 2012) and co-editor and co-author of the book Äeská otázka a dneÅ¡nà doba (The Czech Question and the Contemporary Age, Prague 2017). His other publications include: the monograph Masarykův realismus a filosofie pozitivismu (Masarykâs Realism and the Philosophy of Positivism, Prague 2017) and the study âWhiteheadâs Interpretation of Platoâs âReceptacleâ and the Parallels with the Concept of âEternal Objectsââ (Nóema 2020/11, 35â53,
Martin Å imsa
is a philosopher and a university teacher at Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Faculty of Arts, ujep in Ãstà nad Labem and a researcher at the Jan PatoÄka Archive, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His research interests are in critical and normative hermeneutics (Habermas, Apel, RicÅur), political philosophy, especially deliberative democracy (Cohen, Habermas, Ferrara, Talisse), Czech philosophy (Masaryk, Rádl, Komárková, PatoÄka, Hejdánek, Kohák). He has been involved in the gacr project: âHumanism of Czech philosophy as an open question: Masaryk, PatoÄka, their successors and criticsâ. Publications: Filosof a reforma svÄta. Pokus o interpretaci reformnà filosofie Emanuela Rádla (The Philosopher and the Reform of the World. An attempt at interpretation of reform philosophy of Emanuel Rádl, Prague 1997); Sekularizace a náboženstvà v demokratickém diskurzu (Secularisation and Religion in Democratic Discourse) in M. HanyÅ¡ & J.P. Arnason, eds., Mezi náboženstvÃm a politikou (Between Religion and Politics, Prague 2016); NÄkolik poznámek o lhanà a pravdÄ v demokracii (Some remarks about lying and truth in democracy) in M. Å imsa, ed., Relativismus a (post) pravda v demokracii. Se tÅemi studiemi Ladislava Hejdánka (Relativism
Jakub S. Trojan
is a theologian, and former dean and emeritus professor of the Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in philosophical and theological journals. His work focuses primarily on questions relating to anthropology and social ethics and the issue of power and civic responsibility. He is an honorary member of the Scientific Council of Charles University, a member of the board of the Academic ymca, and a member of the editorial board of the Prague-based publisher oikoymenh. His publications include: Idea lidských práv v Äeské duchovnà tradici (The Idea of Human Rights in the Czech Spiritual Tradition, Prague 2002); JežÃšův pÅÃbÄh â výzva pro nás (Jesusâs Story â An Invitation for Us, Prague 2005); Kontrasty a alternativy (Contrasts and Alternatives, Prague 2007); Moc vÃry a vÃra v moc (The Power of Faith and Faith in Power, Prague 1993).
Vlastimil Zátka
is an emeritus senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He lectures at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University and externally in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pardubice. He specialises in the history of modern philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries (Kant, Schelling Hegel), the philosophy of art, and selected topics in 20th-century philosophy (phenomenology, hermeneutics, modern theories of science). He has published numerous studies and articles on these subjects. His publications include: Kantova teorie estetiky. Studie k dÄjinám filosofie 18. stoletà (Kantâs Theory of Aesthetics. A Study in the History of Philosophy in the 18th Century, Prague 1994 and 1995).
Milan Znoj
is an associate professor in political philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where he teaches the history of political philosophy and the theory of democracy. He focuses on current discussions around liberalism that in contemporary political philosophy are primarily conducted from communitarian and republican positions. He also specialises in the history of ideas and is interested in the Czech tradition of liberal thought, which he seeks to interpret in its relationship to contemporary democracy and society. He is the author or co-author of the following books: Mladý Hegel na prahu moderny (The Young Hegel on the Threshold of Modernism, Prague 1990); Äeský liberalismus. Texty a osobnosti (Czech Liberalism: Writings and Figures, Prague 1995); Trust and