Mgr. Milan Hanyš, Ph.D.

Milan HANYŠ, assistant professor

Vice-Dean for Development and Project Activities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (2023–present)
Guarantor of the Bachelor’s Study Program Liberal Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (2026–present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (2014–present)

See SIS.

See SIS.

2009–2014: PhD in Philosophy at Charles University in Prague with the doctoral essay entitled Apostle Paul and Philosophy: A Study of Political Theology and its Reception in Contemporary Philosophy. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jan Sokol.
2007–2009: M.A. in Philosophy and Social Anthropology. Charles University in Prague. Master essay: Philosophical Interpretation of the Creation Story in Genesis 1,1–2,4a. Overall classification: excellent (Grade 1,0 – summa cum laude).
2005–2007: Ecumenical Theology in the Protestant Faculty of Theology at the Charles University, Prague.
2004–2007: B.A. in Liberal Arts and Humanities at the Charles University, Prague. Overall classification: excellent (summa cum laude).

2018–2019: Jan Patočka Junior Visiting Fellow, Institute für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for for Human Sciences), Vienna (6 months).
2011–2012: Visiting research fellow at the University of Bayreuth. Research scholarship funded by DAAD (10 month).
2008–2009: Erasmus Exchange Programme. Institute for the Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Studies of Religion, Faculty of Philosophy at the Technical University in Dresden.

2021–2024: Felix Weltsch, Jindřich Kohn, and the Intellectual History of Interwar Czechoslovakia, research project of the Czech Science Foundation, principal Investigator, 2021-2024.
2021: International Correspondence Networks of T. G. Masaryk until the Foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, team member
2015–2016: Researcher in the the Center of Excellence for the Research in Phenomenology, Charles University

Hanyš, M., Mezi Prahou a Siónem. Intelektuální portrét Felixe Weltsche v meziválečném Československu. Brno: CDK, [vyjde 2026].
Hanyš, M., Apoštol filosofů: Studie k Pavlově politické teologii a její recepci v soudobé filosofii. Praha: Togga, 2014. [Oceněno v Soutěži vysoce kvalitních monografií UK 2016]
Merhautová, L., Hanyš, M. (eds.), T. G. Masaryk: Der Moderne Mensch und die Religion. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2025.
Hanyš, M. – Pavlíček, T. W. (eds.), Dějiny, smysl a modernita. K 75. narozeninám Miloše Havelky. Praha: MÚA AV ČR – FHS UK, 2019. 440 s.

Hanyš, M., "National Humanism, Zionist Liberalism, and Democracy in the Philosophy of Felix Weltsch". The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 70(1), 2025, 23–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybaf002

Hanyš, M., "Beyond 'The Power of the Powerless': the Political Thought and Polemics of the Czechoslovak Opposition, 1977–1980". East Central Europe, 50(2-3), 2023, 279-303. https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-50020006

Hanyš, M., "Felix Weltsch, tvořivý střed a obranyschopná demokracie". Filosofický časopis 71, 2023, 4, 619–635. https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-50020006

Hanyš, M., "Náboženství, etika a život: nástin filosofie Jana Sokola." Lidé města 23, 2021, 1, p. 33-46.

Hanyš, M., "Reflexe antisemitismu v meziválečných prózách Egona Hostovského". Česká literatura 68, 2020, 5, s. 535–550.

Hanyš, M., "Občanská neposlušnost v myšlení Hannah Arendtové". Filosofický časopis 64, 2016, 1, s. 59–74.

Merhautová, L., Hanyš, M., "T. G. Masaryk und seine Diagnose des Modernen Menschen", in: Merhautová, L., Hanyš, M. (eds.), T. G. Masaryk: Der Moderne Mensch und die Religion, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2025, s. 7–31.

Hanyš, M., "Antiinstitucionalismus a touha po pospolitosti v diskursu Charty 77", in: Gjuričová, A., Nodl, M., Urbánek, V. (eds.), Historiografie, sociologie a politika paměti. Praha: Argo, 2024, s. 267–284.

Hanyš, M., "Absolute Goodness, the Banality of Evil, and the Wickedness Beyond Vice", in: Zawisa, R., Hagedorn, L. (eds.), "Faith in the World." Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt. Frankfurt - New York: Campus Verlag, 2021, s. 189-201.

Hanyš, M., "Masarykova cesta od konzervatismu k feminismu", in: Hanyš, M. – Pavlíček, T. W. (eds.), Dějiny, smysl a modernita. K 75. narozeninám Miloše Havelky. Praha: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR – Fakulta humanitních studií UK, 2019, 251–267.

For further bibliography and full texts see the personal web site on Academia.

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