The lecture has the form of “repetitorium”, as one of its aims is to revise the more difficult topics, which are going to be examined at the exam in philosophy. The main goal of the lecture, nevertheless, is to make the students to understand the fundamental questions of the philosophy of the 20th century and to give them competence for further individual study. During the lecture, shorter and more difficult texts of the 20th century philosophers are read and commented and students are thus introduced to their further lecture. Structure of the subject:
1) Philosophy in the 20th century
2) Husserl’s phenomenology
3) Husserl’s concept of the crisis of the sciences
4) Heidegger’s fundamental ontology
5) Return of the philosophical concept of history
6) Hans-Georg Gadamer
7) Late Wittgenstein, language games
8) American post-analytic philosophy
9) Jan Patočka – “heretical” philosophy of history
10) Asubjective phenomenology