Tomáš Hlobil

Charles University, Czech Republic

Tomáš Hlobil, Ph.D., Charles University, is Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Aesthetics, Charles University, Prague and the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc, where he teaches the history of eighteenth-century aesthetics. He has been a recipient of the Getty, Mellon, Fulbright, and DAAD fellowships, and has published articles in The British Journal of Aesthetics, The Modern Language Review Kant Studien, Das 18. Jahrhundert, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. He has also edited and provided commentary to an English translation František Palacký, An Historical Survey of the Science of Beauty and the Literature on the Subject (originally published in 1821). His research concerns mainly the history of the concept of mimesis, eighteenth-century British and German aesthetics, the history of aesthetics as a university subject, the origins of Czech aesthetics, and the aesthetics of literature in general.

Béla Bacsó

Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Béla Bacsó is Professor and Chairman of the Insitute for Art Theory and Media Research, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and is President of the Hungarian Philosophical Society. His Hungarian-language publications include The Art of Understanding and Understanding of Art; Borderlines: Hermeneutical Essays; and, most recently, “Living is Beautiful”: Interpretations of Art and Philosophy. His German-language publications include Die Unvermeidbarkeit des Irrtums. Essays zur Hermeneutik (Junghans Verlag 1997), a collections of essays. He has translated into Hungarian works by, among others, Heidegger and Gadamer. His chief research interests are hermeneutics and aesthetics.

Oliver Bakoš

Comenius University, Slovakia

Oliver Bakoš, Ph.D., Comenius University, is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Department of Aesthetics at Comenius University. He is the author of Paradoxes of Taste. Contribution to Understanding of Immanuel Kant’s Aesthetics and A Poet and a Thing (all published in Slovak), and has translated into Slovak, among others, works by Nietzsche, Kant, Gadamer, and Schelling. His major area of interest is German idealist aesthetics, especially Kant and Schelling.

Jonathan Bolton

Harvard University, USA

Jonathan Bolton, Ph.D., University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He has published widely on Czech literature and history. Most recently, he has edited and provided commentary to New Historicism, a collection of essays published in Czech by Host, Brno. He chief research interests are Czech literature, history, and culture in the Central European context, the Jews in Central European literature, language, narrative form, and political power in first-person writing under the Communist regime, as well as literary theory and the theory of literary history in general.

Lubomír Konečný

Institute of Art History, Czech Republic

Lubomír Konečný, Ph.D., Charles University, is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Institute of Art History at the Academy of Sciences, Prague. Apart from being on the board of Estetika, he is on the editorial boards of the Czech journal Umění, the American Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, and the Polish-Austrian Artibus et Historiae: An Art Anthology. He also teaches at the Department of Art History, Charles University. He has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the Kress Foundation and also a J. Paul Getty Grant. He is the author of Between Text and Image: Miscellanea from the History of Emblematics. He has also published a number of articles in, among other journals, The Art Bulletin, Studia Rudolphina, and Emblematica. His research concerns iconography, iconology and emblematics.

Tomáš Kulka

Charles University, Czech Republic

Tomáš Kulka, Ph.D., Jerusalem, is Associate Professor at the Department of Aesthetics, Charles University, where he teaches analytic aesthetics. He is the author Kitsch and Art (published in English, Hebrew, Finnish, and Czech) and Art and Forgery (published in Czech). Recently, he co-translated Goodman’s Languages of Art into Czech. He has also published many articles in scholary journals such as The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Social Sciences, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophia, Leonardo, and Poetics Today. His research is concerned chiefly with analytic aesthetics, primarily Nelson Goodman’s aesthetics.

Ruth Lorand

University of Haifa, Israel

Ruth Lorand, Ph.D., Tel Aviv, is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, the University of Haifa. Her book Aesthetic Order – A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art was published by Routledge in 2000. She has also published many articles in The British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, the Journal of History of Philosophy, and the Canadian Aesthetics Journal. Her chief research interests are Kant, aesthetics (art and beauty), hermeneutics, and problems of order and disorder.

Miroslav Marcelli

Comenius University, Slovakia

Miroslav Marcelli, Ph.D., Comenius University, is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Comenius University, Bratislava. He has written a number of books on Foucault and Barthes, and also translated some of their works into Slovak. He has a wide-ranging interest in the history of philosophy, semiotics, and the theory of argumentation.

Petr Osolsobě

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D., Charles University, is Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Chairman of the Department of Aesthetics, Masaryk University, Brno. He translated Karel Svoboda’s L’Esthétique de Saint Augustin et ses sources (1933) into Czech, and has published many articles on Dante, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, and the theory of theatre in general.

Piotr J. Przybysz

University of Gdańsk, Poland

Piotr Przybysz is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the University of Gdańsk. He is author of Stefan Morawski’s Aesthetics. Vision of the World and Method and editor of three volumes: Education and values, Education towards diversity, Edukacja wobec wyzwań kulturowo-cywilizacyjnych (Education – Facing Culture and Civilization).

Anthony Savile

King’s College London, Great Britain

Anthony Savile is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He is Editor of the Aristotelian Society and on the Editorial Board of Mind. His Test of Time was published by Oxford UP in 1982. His publications include books on Schiller, Schelling, and Kant, and he co-edited a collection of essays in honour of Richard Wollheim. He is broadly interested in Kant’s critical philosophy and philosophical aesthetics.

Carsten Zelle

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Carsten Zelle, Ph.D., Marburg, is Professor of German Literature Studies, Theory, and Rhetoric, in the Department of German Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum. He has published many books and articles on various topics in aesthetics, including »Angenehmes Grauen«. Literaturhistorische Beiträge zur Ästhetik des Schrecklichen im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, Die doppelte Ästhetik der Moderne: Revisionen des Schönen von Boileau bis Nietzsche, and Kurze Bücherkunde für Literaturwissenschaftler.

Vlastimil Zuska

Charles University, Czech Republic

Vlastimil Zuska, Ph.D., Charles University, is Professor of Aesthetics and Chairman of the Department of Aesthetics, Charles University. He is author of the Temporality of Metaphor, Time in the Possible Worlds of an Image, and Towards the Aesthetics of the XXth Century: Mimesis – Fiction – Distance (all in Czech). His current chief areas of academic interest are theories of fiction and the notion of aesthetic attitude in literature, visual art, and cinema.