This paper discusses the work of the german philosopher of history and literary critic Walter Benjamin. The work follows his papers about modern society and modern art.The thesis analyzes his famous work The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction.

In this Master´s thesis, its author presents his considerations concerning the category of "the sublime", which has been existing since the antiquity up to now. The author compares two philosophers, Immanuel Kant and Jean Françoise Lyotard and their attitudes towards the aesthetic&...

This thesis presents the main topics that were brought to the literary theory by the most important exponent and co-founder of the Constance School of Reception Aesthetics, Wolfgang Iser. The topics are set in the broader context of development of literary and culturological debate...

The thesis focuses on the analysis of the language in the work of the famous spanish philosophers of 20-th century - José Ortega y Gasset, María Zambrano and Xavier Zubiri. The thesis briefly introduces philosophical thought of Ortega, it also focuses on problematic aspects of...

The topic of my thesis is a philosophical reflection of media communication in the context of postmodern culture and cyberculture of the 21st century. The goal of the thesis is to reflect influences of media communication in postmodern culture, hypermodern and digimodern society. M...

This thesis is about information graphics as one of the form of visual communication. The main purpose of the work is a comprehensive description of the terms and mechanisms that make the information graphics today such a popular and well-known term. The work is divided i...

The main concern of the thesis is the possibility of expressing ethical problems in language. With the help of concepts of Wittgenstein, Habermas and Apel, Rosenzweig and others is exploring ow we talk about values and such.

The work focuses on the problems of the sense-data theory in order to show how we can take an advantage of this theory. The work considers mainly two authors: Mr. Russell and Mr. Moore. It also take into the account the important arguments for and objections against&...

This thesis describes the Theory of Mind and the processes related to self-awareness at an early age with the goal of providing a comprehensive comparative overview of research on these topics. It further addresses the neurobiological foundation of the Theory of Mind (namely the&#x...

This thesis deals with attitudes of contemporary university students of non-humanistic fields of study to language. Research focuses only on students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. The goal o...

Thesis is focused on the role of pope Francis in contemporary dialogue of christians and Jews. It compares his teachings with teachings of his predecessors and documents of Second vatican council. In the same time is thesis focused on opinions and influences of jewish communit...

In my thesis I deal with functionalism in the philosophy of mind as well as in artificial intelligence. I also introduce the mind-body problem on which functionalism responds, as well as the work of Alan Turing, from which it originates. Besides two main functionalism works&#x...

The goal of this thesis is to explain Freud's and Jung's theory of dream interpretation and on this basis point out similarities and differences between these conceptions. Futhermore the goal is to state connection between interpretation of dreams and Grice's theory of meani...

The presented paper analyses expressions of language etiquette in the language material collected from discussion boards of two Czech news websites Novinky.cz and iDnes.cz. The analytical part analyses the collected language material through grammatical and pragmalingustic standpoints. The expressions ...

This thesis deals with artificial languages on Czech territory in the first half of the 20th century. In the first chapter, the term Czech territory is explained, and furthermore a characterization of artificial languages is provided, as well as a brif overview of their histor...

This thesis deals with Czech poetry of the first half of twentieth century. It is focused on avant-garde styles, namely poeticism, surrealism and expressionism. Those main streams of poetry are compared and the philosophical ideals of each of them are presented.

The diploma thesis introduces various concepts of mimesis and the reflection of reality in literature. The main goal of the thesis is to prove on the basis of analysis of selected works the hypothesis that mimesis as a form of any representation or imitation is present&#x...

The thesis deals with the relationship of contemporary Czech art and Christianity. Here are presented young recognized artists in whose work are reflected Christian themes in the first twelve chapters. The presented artworks are interesting at first sight and the accompanying text ...

This thesis deals the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the Czechoslovakia in between 1918-1938. The first chapter focuses on the essence of anti-Semitsm. The next part is devoted to the significant historical context of Jewish history in Bohemia, the Czech anti-Semitism and the affair...

The main aim of this thesis was to introduce the concepts of two different authors who both highly contributed to the discussions about the topic blending of the discourses of fiction and history and their consecutive comparison. These authors are Hayden White and Lubomír Dole...