Issue 5 (October 2025) of the academic journal Filozofia has just been published on the journal’s website.
Filozofia is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, open to all authors regardless of methodology or philosophical orientation.
The editor-in-chief of the journal is Jon “the unstoppable” Stewart (Filozofický ústav SAV).
Editor’s choice: A research paper entitled “Hegel and Gombrich on the Particular Forms of Art and their Persistence” (in English), authored by Allen Speight (Boston University, Boston, USA). This paper explores Hegel’s account of artistic forms (symbolic, classical and romantic) and their persistence through time, linking his aesthetics to Ernst Gombrich’s analysis of style and representation.
C. Allen Speight is a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Admissions in the Department of Philosophy. His main research interests include German Idealism (especially Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), aesthetics, philosophy of art and literature, and philosophy of religion. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and earlier studied journalism at St. John’s College in Maryland. His first monograph, Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge UP, 2001), explores how literary genres such as tragedy, comedy and the romantic novel map onto Hegel’s account of human agency. He has held distinguished fellowships including the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and a DAAD scholarship. Beyond his scholarship, he has been recognized for excellence in undergraduate teaching and has taught wide-ranging courses on topics from narrative and agency to modern art and philosophy. Currently, he is working on projects concerning the philosophical significance of early art and the origins and future of secularism.
Contents:
- Allen Speight (Boston University, Boston, USA) – “Hegel and Gombrich on the Particular Forms of Art and their Persistence” (in English).
- Lou Matz (University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA) – “Feuerbach’s Anthropomorphic Critique of Kant’s Theism” (in English).
- David Rybák (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) – “Problém vnitřku vnitřního vědomí v Husserlově fenomenologii se zřetelem k pojmu vnitřního u Platóna” (in Czech).
- Štěpán Raška (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) – “Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Democracy: Between Peirce and Dewey” (in English).
- Nicolás de Navascués (University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain) – “The Order of Art and Ethical Disorder: Levinasian Thoughts on Creation and Resistance” (in English).
- Jaroslava Vydrová & Jon Stewart (Filozofický ústav SAV) – “Introduction to the Monothematic Block: The Human Being in the Coordinates of Symbolic Structures” (in English).
- Michal Lipták (Filozofický ústav SAV) – “Towards a Phenomenology of Rupture” (in English).
- Jaroslava Vydrová (Filozofický ústav SAV) – “The Experience of Strangeness and the Possibility of Manifestations in Social Roles (with Reference to A. Schutz and H. Plessner)” (in English).
- Michal Zvarík (Trnava University, Trnava, Slovak Republic) – “Sacrum and Holiday: The Case of Tragedy in Jan Patočka’s Thought” (in English).
- Anton Vydra (Trnava University, Trnava, Slovak Republic) – “Topoanalysis and Cultural Images: The Case of the Cul-de-Sac” (in English).
- Romana Javorčeková (Filozofický ústav SAV) – “E. Cassirer a krajina ako multisenzorická a časovo-priestorová syntéza” (in Slovak).
- Martín Prestía – Facundo Bey (ed.): Hans-Georg Gadamer. Cuestiones abiertas / Open Questions (book review in English).
The journal Filozofia promotes the idea of open science. All articles published in the journal are therefore available to readers free of charge.
The current issue can be found here: https://filozofia.sav.sk/en/current/issue
