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What is SIF?

"SIF" stands for "Středoevropský Institut Filosofie" ("The Central-European Institute of Philosophy"). The Institute promotes philosophy and transdisciplinary research. It achieves its goals through a specific curriculum and research, emphasizing the transdisciplinary and intercultural aspects and international cooperation. Furthermore,it hosts workshops and conferences,participates in several publishing activities and promotes the exchange of students and professors.

AUC Interpretationes: Eugen Fink and French Phenomenology

Published on November 27th, 2025

The latest issue of AUC Interpretationes, “Eugen Fink and French Phenomenology: Meontics – Philosophy – Cosmology,” has been published as an output of the grant “Eugen Fink and the French Phenomenology.” It is available here.

New books on philosophy of Jan Patočka

Published on September 23rd, 2023

Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Central-European Institute of Philosophy

invite to a presentation of new books on the philosophy of Jan Patočka:

James Dodd, The New School for Social Research, New York: The Heresies of Jan Patočka. Phenomenology, History, and Politics, Evanston, […]

Karel Novotný: Welt und Leib Zu einigen Grundmotiven der Phänomenologie

Published on November 1st, 2021

Dieses Buch arbeitet den Bogen heraus, der zunächst – im Ausgang von der Kritik an Husserls transzendentaler Phä- nomenologie – in den spekulativ-kosmologischen Wendungen bei Eugen Fink und Renaud Barbaras über die Phänomenologie hinauszielt und sodann bei Jan Patočka und László Tengelyi wieder zurück zur transzendentalen Phänomenologie der Weltvorgege- benheit führt. Ein Exkurs zur […]

Křest knihy E. T. Gendlin: Dialog s prožíváním

Published on September 20th, 2016

Pozvánka

Srdečně zveme všechny zájemce na křest knihy „Dialog s prožíváním: Tělo a rozumění v psychoterapii a mimo ni“. Publikaci tvoří tři rozsáhlé texty amerického filosofa, psychologa a psychoterapeuta E. T. Gendlina, autora známého přístupu k tělesnému prožívání zvaného „focusing“.

Co ví tělo? Ví vůbec něco, anebo nás jen mate? A pokud něco tělo ví, […]

Pohyb existence. Studie k fenomenologii Jana Patočky

Published on April 28th, 2016

Ústav filosofie a religionistiky Filozofické fakulty UK vás srdečně zve na l’Institut de philosophie et de science des religions de la Faculté des lettres de l’Université Charles vous invite chaleureusement à

představení knihy RENAUDA BARBARASE la présentation du livre de RENAUD BARBARAS

POHYB EXISTENCE. STUDIE K FENOMENOLOGII JANA PATOČKY. (Pavel Mervart, 2016, přeložil Josef Fulka)

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Genealogies

Published on August 15th, 2014

Phainomena XXII/84-85, Junij 2013

Edited by Andrina Tonkli Komel and Hans Rainer Sepp Ljubljana, 2013

*Published in collaboration with: *Veröffentlicht in Verbindung mit: Středoevropský institut pro filosofii (SIF) / Central-European Institute for Philosophy / Mitteleuropäisches Institut für Philosophie, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta humanitních studií / Charles University Prague, Faculty of Human Sciences / Karls-Universität […]

New texts from SIF members

Published on April 22nd, 2013

Recent publications from SIF members to download here.

Orbis Phaenomenologicus

Published on June 22nd, 2011

Orbis Phaenomenologicus. Perspektiven – Quellen – Studien Edited by Kah Kyung Cho (Buffalo), Yoshihiro Nitta (Tokyo) and Hans Rainer Sepp (Prag)

Die Reihe präsentiert Denkansätze und Erträge der Phänomenologie und bestimmt ihre Positionen im Kontext anderer philosophischer Strömungen. Sie diskutiert Aporien des phänomenologischen Denkens und fördert die weiterführende phänomenologische Sachforschung. Die Perspektiven widmen sich phänomenologischen […]

Libri virides

Published on June 22nd, 2011

Libri virides Edited by Hans Rainer Sepp

Libri virides brings together exciting texts by outstanding young authors working in the areas of philosophy and philosophical-inspired sciences. They offer a forum that presents the ideas and research of a new generation.

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Libri nigri

Published on June 22nd, 2011

Libri Nigri Edited by Hans Rainer Sepp

The libri nigri meet preferentially at sites where the boundaries of realities, standpoints, disciplines as well as cultural traditions and traditions of knowledge come into view and where their assump-tions are negotiable. To trace their intentions of reasoning is more important than the search for the reasons themselves; […]

 
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