FF:PHV438 XXth-Century Czech Philosophy - Course Information
PHV438 XXth-Century Czech Philosophy: Selected Chapters
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOUHLAS
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Celta Teacher Education Program (programme CST, TTEP)
- Central European Studies Program (programme CST, CESP)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (5)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH_) (6)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (2)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH_) (3)
- Erasmus Intensive Language Course (programme CST, KOS)
- Language Training for Study at the Czech Universities (programme CST, JPVS)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies (programme CST, SSEES)
- Tesol Teacher Education Program (programme CST, TTEP)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-MA)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS) (4)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-ZA_) (4)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce (not only) exchange students to the XXth Century Czech philosophy (selected chapters).
- Syllabus
- Introduction
- Selected chapters:
- Masaryk
- Havel
- Patočka
- Literature and Philosophy: Milan Kundera
- Czech Women Philosophers
- Literature
- Czech philosophy in the 20th century. Edited by Lubomír Nový - Jiří Gabriel - Jaroslav Hroch. Washington: Council for research in values and philosophy, 1994, 234 s. ISBN 1-56518-028-3. info
- KUNDERA, Milan. The joke. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. London: Penguin Books, 1984, x, 267. ISBN 014006415X. info
- Teaching methods
- online block course (8.-12. 4. 2024), lectures, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- Students have to turn in tasks and write an essay on selected theme (5 pages).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: e-learning.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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