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Volume 65 (2010), 9

Papers

(Original title: Theodor W. Adorno: Dve tváre Kierkegaarda ako kritika spoločnosti)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 821-832.
Abstract

T. W. Adorno deals with Kierkegaard intellectual legacy in tens of his works, which were being published in the course of more than three decades. One of his main concerns is rather ambiguous: depicting Kierkegaard as a critique of the society of that time. Adorno examines Kierkegaard’s social and political sensibility, as well as his theory of inwardness, and his… Read more

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(Original title: Michel Henry: Reflexie o Marxovej filozofii)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 833-844.
Abstract

The paper deals with M. Henry’s interpretation of Marxian philosophy in the frame of his phenomenology of life. Its aim is to show the relevance of Henry’s interpretation for the global crisis of capitalism in our times. Henry argues that economic questions in Marx’s Capital, first of all his theory of surplus value, is closely connected with the historical issues… Read more

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(Original title: Svedomie ako „iné v tom istom“. Ricœur, Levinas: Dve odlišné neepistemologické perspektívy)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 845-859.
Abstract

The essay compares Ricœur’s and Levinas’s conceptions of the constitution of conscience in the sense of German Gewissen. Beginning with Ricœur’s basic distinction between “identity-idem” and “identity-ipse” it shows the proper place of conscience in his conception. For Ricœur conscience is a finite category of otherness as related to the self, i.e. its most… Read more

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(Original title: Saturated Phenomena: From Picture to Revelation in Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 860-876.
Abstract

A phenomenon is that which appears. In his phenomenology, Jean-Luc Marion shows how a phenomenon that appears in and out of itself evades the metaphysical demand of grounding. Classical philosophy has acknowledged phenomena only in so far as they can be sanctioned by the concepts of the intellect. This holds good also of Husserl’s constitutive ego. Now, Marion… Read more

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(Original title: Konceptuální sítě antropologických reflexí a dílčí podoby moci)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 877-892.
Abstract

The paper’s focus is on an age-long philosophical issue: man and power. It is analyzed in the frame of the basic philosophical paradigms: ontological, epistemological, axiological, anthropological and linguistic. From the analysis and comparison of the particular traits of each of these paradigms three approaches to human beings arise: essential, existential and… Read more

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(Original title: Čo znamená prevziať zodpovednosť? K pojmu imputácie v súčasnej etike)
Filozofia, 65 (2010), 9, 893-906.
Abstract

The conceptual basis of the paper is the difference between two types of responsibility: (a) the agent’s responsibility for his own acts and their effects; (b) a responsibi- lity which is primarily oriented to the Other, about whom one is concerned and for whom one guarantees. The paper deals with this second meaning of responsibility: an imputation of a deed to… Read more

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