Václav Belohradský
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Czech people
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philosophers and sociologists. A graduate in philosophy
Philosophy
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and Czech from Charles University, Prague
Prague
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, he has lived in Italy
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since 1970, where he is currently Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trieste
University of Trieste
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. He is said to be a successor of Jan Patočka
Jan Patocka
Jan Patočka is considered one of the most important contributors to Czech philosophical phenomenology, as well as one of the most influential central European philosophers of the 20th century...
. He is a representative of biocentrism
Biocentrism
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, which he developed to refusing anthropocentric
Anthropocentrism
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overestimation of symbol and culture
Culture
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. He also thinks we need to step back from "us" to be able to lay foundations of new and freer society.
Works
- Interpretazioni italiane di Wittgenstein, Milan, 1972.
- Ragionamento, azione, società. Sociologia della conoscenza in Vilfredo Pareto, Milan, 1974.
- Il mondo della vita: un problema politico, Milan 1981.
- Krize eschatologie neosobnosti, London, 1982, 1984.
- Myslet zeleň světa. Rozhovor s K. Hvížďalou, 1985, 1991.
- Kapitalismus a občanské ctnosti, 1992.
- Mezi světy & mezisvěty, 1997.
- Společnost nevolnosti, 2007