Jan Kuneš, PhD.

Deputy head of the research group

Research interests:

Philosophy of the Subject; Conceptions of metaphysics in the period of German Classical Philosophy, with special interest in Kant, Fichte and Hegel; Reception of philosophy of German Classical Philosophy in the 20th and 21th centuries

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Biographical Note

Jan Kuneš studied at Charles University, Prague (MA 1996, PhD 2002), and at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and University of Chicago (long-term scholarship:1994-1999).

Teaching

2001-2002: external lecturer at Department of Philosophy, Palacký University Olomouc

2006-2007: external lecturer at Institute of Philosophy and Religious studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague

2008-present: external lecturer at Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice

Publications

Books

- Kant and the Question of Subject (Kant a otázka subjektu), Prague: Karolinum, 2008, 103 pp.

Books and companions edited

- with M. Frank (eds.), Selbstbewusstsein. Dieter Henrich und die Heidelberger Schule, Berlin: J. B. Metzler, 2022, 524 pp.

- Cramer, K., Objekt, soud a sebevědomí v Kantově Kritice čistého rozumu [Object, Judgement and Self-Consiousness in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason], ed. and transl., Prague: Oikúmené, 2021, 153 pp.

- Kantův morální zákon [Kant’s Moral Law], ed. and transl., Prague: Oikúmené, 2017, 115 pp.

- with A. Schnell (eds), Bild, Selbstbewusstsein, Einbildung, Leiden: Brill, 2016. 234 pp. Fichte-Studien, 42

- with M. Vrabec (eds.), Man and his World: Modern Philosophical Concept of the World (Člověk a jeho svět. Filosofický pojem světa od novověku po dnešek), Prague: Filosofia, 2008, 416 pp.

- with M. Vrabec (eds.), The Place of the Phenomenology of Spirit in Contemporary Thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 200 Years on (Místo fenomenologie ducha v současném myšlení. K dvoustému výročí Hegelovy Fenomenologie ducha), Prague: Argo, 2007, 318 pp.

- with J. Karásek and I. Landa (eds.), Hegels Einleitung in die Phänomenologie des Geistes, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, 258 pp.

- with P. Glombíček (eds.), Cogito, ergo sum, Prague: Filosofia, 2006, 180 pp.

- with P. Glombíček (eds.), Descartes' Cogito (Descartovo cogito), special issue of Filosofický časopis, vol. 51, No. 5, 2003, 175 pp.

Articles in International Publications (selected)

- Rückgang in den Grund. Zu späteren Veröffentlichungen Dieter Henrichs über das Selbstbewusstsein, in: M. Frank and J. Kuneš (eds.), Selbstbewusstsein. Dieter Henrich und die Heidelberger Schule, Berlin: J. B. Metzler, 2022, pp. 43–66

- "Základné problémy fenomenológie – dokončenie Bytia a času" [The Basic Problems of Phenomenology – Finishing of Being and Time]", in: V. Leško, M. Sobotka and others (eds), Heidegger a novoveká metafyzika, Košice: Filozofická fakulta UJPŠ v Košiciach 2017, pp. 167-192

- "Ragione e amore in Rousseau e Hegel", in: A. Balestra a C. Piazzesi (eds), Eros e discorso amoroso, Pisa: ETS 2015, pp. 93-106

- "Das ‚praktische' Sein: Zu Heideggers vollständigem Seinsbegriff in Sein und Zeit", in: S. Lang and L.-T. Ulrichs (eds.), Subjektivität und Autonomie. Praktische Selbstverhältnisse in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter 2013, pp. 337-364

- "Heidegger und Kants Weltbegriff", in: S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. La Rocca a M. Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010, Bd. 5, Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter 2013, pp. 781-792

- "Kants Kritik der rationalen Psychologie", in: J. Chotaš, J. Karásek and J. Stolzenberg (eds.), Metaphysik und Kritik. Interpretationen zur „Transzendentalen Dialektik" der Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010, pp. 75-98

- "Strawson and Kant on Being 'I'", in: J. Hvorecký and P. Koťátko (eds.), The Grounds of Sense: Philosophy of P. F. Strawson, special issue of Organon F: Journal of Analytic Philosophy, vol. 16, No. 4, 2009, pp. 493-509

- Kuneš, J., "Consciousness and Spirit. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in Comparison with the Conception of Jacobi and the later Fichte" (Syneidese kai pneuma. He Fainomenologia tou pneumatos tou Hegel se sygkrise me tis antilepseis tou Jacobi kai tou hysteru Fichte), in: K. Kavoulakos (ed.), He Fainomenologia tou pneumatos tu G. W. F. Hegel, Athena: Ekdoseis Alexandreia, 2009, pp. 39-60

Articles in Czech Publications (selected)

- "Man as the Locus of Manifestation: On the Grounds of Heidegger's Philosophy of Being and Time and of his Thought after the Kehre", in: Reflexe, 50, 2016, pp. 113-144

- "Immanuel Kant: Innate Right of Freedom in the Context of Practical Philosophy" (Immanuel Kant: vrozené právo na svobodu v kontextu praktické filosofie), in: A. Havlíček (ed.), Lidská a přirozená práva v dějinách, Ústí nad Labem: FF Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 2014, pp. 137-153

- "Modern Mathematisation, Heidegger and Kant" (Novověká matematizace, Heidegger a Kant), in: P. Kůrka, A. Matoušek, B. Velický (eds.), Spor o matematizaci světa, Červený Kostelec: Mervart, 2011, pp. 211-242

- "Kuneš, J., Kant's Logic of Knowing" (Kantova logika vědění), in Reflexe, 41, 2011, pp. 3-23

- "The Fichte's First Science of Knowledge" (Fichtovo první vědosloví), in: M. Vrabec (ed.), Fichtova teorie sebevědomí, Prague: Togga, 2008, pp. 97-143

- "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" (Kantova kritika čistého rozumu), in: Reflexe, vol. 26, 2004, pp. 5-20

- "The Concept in Self-consciousness: A Study on the Relation of Self-consciousness and Thought in the Critique of Pure Reason" (Pojem v sebevědomí. Studie ke vztahu sebevědomí a myšlení v Kritice čistého rozumu), in: Filosofický časopis, vol. 50, No. 1, 2002: 87-123

Translations (selected)

- Gutschmidt, H., René Descartes – Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Eine kritische Einführung in sein Denken (René Descartes – filosofie a věda. Kritický úvod do jeho myšlení), Prague: Oikúmené, 2021, 177 pp.

- with M. Sobotka: Hegel, G. W. F., Phänomenologie des Geistes (Fenomenologie ducha), Prague: Filosofia, 2019, 591 pp.

- Heidegger, M., Phänomenologische Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Fenomenologická interpretace Kantovy Kritiky čistého rozumu), Prague: Oikúmené, 2004, 343 pp.

- Patzig, G., Wie sind synthetische Urteile a priori möglich? (Jak jsou možné syntetické soudy a priori?), Prague 2003, 87 pp.

Popularization (selected)

Curator of the exhibition Landscape Country, The North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Art in Litoměřice, 2018

Coordinator and one of the authors of the 8-part cycle The Century of Reason (on Kant and German Idealism) broadcast by Czech Radio 3–Vltava, 2011