Research Areas

• His specialities are theories of knowing in overlapping areas of philosophy, science, religion, and art in intercultural respects, esp. concerning European and Asian philosophies.

• He is currently dealing with a renewed phenomenology of the human body that intends the establishing of an interdisciplinary as well intercultural oikological philosophy.

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Work Experience

• 2014–present: Active member of the Research Institution Orfeo – Sound Picture Letter, University of Verona, Italy

• 2009–present: Co-director of the Central-European Institute of Philosophy (www.sif-praha.cz), ASCR and Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• 2006–present: Active member of the Research Institution Group Weimar, Sorbonne, Paris

• 2004–present: Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• 2002–present: Member of the Executive Committee of Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (O.P.O.)

• 2004–2014: Director of the Eugen Fink-Archive, Pedagogical University Freiburg, Germany

• 1996–2004: Fellow at Jan Patočka-Archive / Centrum fenomenologických bádání (CTS), Prague, and Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Charles University

• 1982–1996: Fellow at the Husserl-Archive, University of Freiburg, Germany

Education

• 2005: Habilitation in philosophy (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

• 1992: Ph.D. in philosophy (Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany)

• 1980: Magister Artium in philosophy (Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany)

Stays Abroad (Visiting Professorships)

• 2017: University of Wuppertal, Germany

• 2015: University of Kassel, Germany

• 2010: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands

• 2010: University of Gent, Belgium

• 2009: Universidad de Morelia de Michoacan, México

• 2009: Chinese University Hong Kong

• 2006: University of Bolzano, Italy

• 2001: Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

• 1993: St. Petersburg School for Religion and Philosophy, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1992, 1993: Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Awards

• 2018: Husserl-Prize (German Society of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)

• 2016: Festschrift on occasion of the 60th birthday anniversary (published: Kontexte des Leiblichen, ed. K. Novotný, C. Nielsen, Th. Nenon, Nordhausen 2016)

• 2012: Husserl Lecture (Husserl-Archive at the University of Leuven / Belgium)

• 2005: Festschrift on occasion of the 50th birthday anniversary (published in two volumes, Prague 2005 und 2006)

Grants (selection)

• 2015–2017: (Central European Institute of Philosophy, Prague): Research project “Life and Environment. Phenomenological Relations between Subjectivity and Natural World”. – Czech Science Agency.

• 2009–2014: (Central European Institute of Philosophy, Prague): Research project “Philosophical Investigations of Body Experiences: Transdisciplinary Perspectives”. – Czech Science Agency.

• 2005: (Eugen Fink-Archive, Freiburg): Archive project: “Systematische Erfassung des wissenschaftlichen Nachlasses von Eugen Fink”. – Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg.

• 2002–2004: (Centrum fenomenologických bádaní, Prague) Research project: “Phänomen Europa”, in cooperation with the University of Mainz, Germany. – Volkswagen-Stiftung.

• 1998–2001: (Centrum fenomenologických bádaní, Prague) Research project: “Ausbau des Jan Patocka-Archivs in Prag zu einem Zentrum für Phänomenologische Forschung”, in cooperation with the University of Freiburg. – Volkswagen-Stiftung.

• 1994–1997: Research Project “Editions of Philosophical Primary Texts in Russian (Husserl, Heideg¬ger) on the Basis of New Conceptions of Translation”. – INTAS, EU Bruxelles).

Further Activities

• In 2011 he founded the book series libri nigri and libri virides, and in 2014 the book series Ad Fontes. Studies in Early Phenomenology.

• With Joachim Fischer, Ada Neschke, and Gérard Raulet he edits the book series Phänomenologische Anthropologie – Themen und Positionen (2008–).

• He also edits the Eugen Fink Gesamtausgabe in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Mainz (2006–).

• Together with Kah Kyung Cho and Yoshihiro Nitta he founded the book series Orbis Phaenomenologicus (1993–)

• With Karl-Heinz Lembeck and Ernst Wolfgang Orth he edited the book series Phänomenologie Texte und Kontexte (1997–2001).

• He is also member of about 35 advisory boards of journals and organisations and organized about 70 international conferences and workshops.

Publications (selection)