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            On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant, an international c

            under the title After Kant: What do Art and Literature owe to Kant? took place at our facu
            three hot days at the end of June. On June 24th-26th, 36 participants from practically all
            world presented. The first two days were held in English and hybrid mode. The third day wa

            discussions in Czech, where mainly students of the follow-up master's program Philosophy i
            of Humanities spoke: Eliška Rosenbaumová, Barbora Římalová, and Jakub Stoček, as well as A
            from the doctoral program in Philosophical Anthropology. Each day had a keynote speaker; o

            day, it was Ian Alexander Moore of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, on the se
            Reid of Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO and the entire conference was rounded 

            Benyovszky and Richard Zika from the Department of Philosophy of our alma mater.

            As the conference title suggests, the main focus was more on the reception and discussion 

            thoughts regarding aesthetic experience, and thus, his third Critique of Judgment from 179
            of interest. The contributions covered both the themes and period of Kant's contemporaries
            Herder, Goethe, Humboldt, Schelling et alii) to a very recent discussion in the field of a

            (Thierry de Duve), not only in the field of philosophy but also in the novel, poetic and v
            We heard contributions addressing the echoes or direct reception of Kant's work in F. M. D
            novel The Brothers Karamazov, in Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett, in the novels of Al

            the music of the band The Grateful Dead, and even in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's N
            Forman. Recurring themes were sublime, genius, tragic, or (non) biased aesthetic experienc
            to the contributions of the keynote speakers above, the lectures of overseas students Sara

            (University of Toronto) and Daniel LeBlanc (Yale University) stood out, as well as their c
            the discussion after individual lectures.


            Foto: Ondřej Trojan, Štěpán Šanda

            Foreign participants praised the amiable welcome and constant communication of the organis

            environment of our faculty building, the friendly, relaxed, and inspiring atmosphere of th
            as well as the beauty of our capital city. The compliments ranged from a rather exaggerate
            conference I have attended” to more realistic “the most enjoyable", "friendliest", and "mo

            conference.

            The conference would not have been so successful without our doctoral students Alexandra B

            Basilaia, Brice Cantrell, Marek Lentvorský, Shawn Christopher Vigil, and Marek Vodička who
            in our last years extremely successful conference for the celebration of 400th anniversary
            of Blaise Pascal. Marek Lentvorský even helped out at the last minute with the moderation 

            afternoon session on Tuesday, June 25. A big thanks to all of them. To conclude, it should
            the event was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Cooperatio program, the 
            department, for which the organisers are extremely grateful.


            Shall we do it again in 2025 for the 250th anniversary of FJW Schelling's birth?


            Aleš Novák, translation: Melanie S. Terry