Karel Thein

Selected publications
    Books:
  • Le lien intraitable. Enqu?te sur le temps dans la République et le Timée de Platon, Vrin, Paris 2001, 350 pp.
  • Vynález věcí. O Platónově hypotéze idejí (The Invention of Things. On Plato's Hypothesis of Forms), Filosofia, Prague 2008, 515 pp.
  • Myšlení v nás. Tři platónské studie (Thinking in Us. Three Platonic Studies), Filosofia, Prague 2010, 364 pp. (The monograph's main focus is on how Plato treats those aspects of human understanding that pertain to the process of deliberately choosing from among alternatives. It also shows how Plato anticipated the Aristotelian distinction between the practical and the theoretical reason.)
    Articles:
  • "La décision de l'analogie. Remarque sur Derrida, lecteur de Platon", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 3, 1998, 377-396 (English version "The Decision of Analogy: A Remark on Derrida, Reader of Plato", in Michel Meyer, ed., Questioning Derrida. With his replies on philosophy, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001, 14-28)
  • "Foundation and Decay of Socrates' Best City (Republic VI, 499b-c, and Books VIII-IX)", in The Republic and Laws of Plato. Proceedings of the First Symposium Platonicum Pragense, ed. Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík, Oikúmené, Prague, 1998, 67-75
  • "L'exemple de Socrate. Les ébauches autobiographiques dans l'Apologie de Socrate écrite par Platon", L'animal autobiographique. Autour de Jacques Derrida, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet, Galilée, Paris, 1999, 47-59
  • "Die Auffassung der menschlichen Person in der hippokratischen Medizin", Die Menchliche Person. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Personbegriffs, ed. Milan Mráz and Adolf Slabý, Prague, Filosofia, 1999, 43-52
  • "Entre anoia et agnoia. La nature humaine et la comédie dans les dialogues de Platon", in Le rire des Grecs. Anthropologie du rire en Grece ancienne, ed. Marie-Laurence Desclos, Grenoble, Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2000, 169-180
  • "Mettre la kallipolis en acte: l'équivoque temporelle dans la République de Platon", in Constructions du temps dans le monde grec ancien, ed. Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2000
  • "Anamnesis and Phronesis in the Phaedo. Bond of Life, or Deadly Noose?", in A. Havlíček, ed., Proceedings of the Second Symposium Platonicum Pragense, Oikúmené, Prague, 2001, 266-274
  • "Gods and Painters : Philostratus the Elder, Stoic phantasia and the strategy of describing", Ramus, 31, nos. 1 & 2, 2002, 136-145
  • "Teleology and Myth in the Protagoras", in Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík (eds.), Plato's Protagoras. Proceedings of the Third Symposium Platonicum Pragense, Praha, Oikúmené, 2003, 60-70
  • "The Second 'Third Man Argument': What Difference Does the Likeness Make?", in Aleš Havlíček a Filip Karfík, eds., Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, Praha, Oikoumené, 2005, str. 75-87
  • "Justice dans la cité et justice en l'âme: une analogie imparfaite", in Monique Dixsaut, ed., Études sur la République, vol. 1, Paris, Vrin, 2005, 247-263
  • "Les Formes dans la République", in Monique Dixsaut, ed., Études sur la République, vol. 2, Paris, Vrin, 2005, 71-94
  • "The Life Forms and Their Model in Plato's Timaeus", Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 3, no. 2, 2006, 241-273
  • "La force du vraisemblable. Philostrate, Callistrate et l'image ? l'épreuve de l'ekphrasis", Métis, n. s. 6, 2008, 315-344
  • "War, Gods and Mankind in the Timaeus-Critias", Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 5, 2008,49-107
  • "Artefacts, Non-Particulars and Model Particulars", in J. Hvorecký, P. Koťátko (eds): The Grounds of Sense. Philosophy of P. F. Strawson, Organon F, 2009, 510-529
  • "Stoic Fictions: The Prehistory of Analysis", in Koťátko, P., Pokorný, M., Sabates, M., Fictionality-Possibility-Reality. Bratislava, Aleph, 2010, 259-279 (The chapter proposes an interpretation of Stoic nominalism about abstract entities in the light of contemporary theories of fictitious objects. In this context, special attention is given to the problem of propositional content and the issue of Stoic lekta).
  • "Menard, the Quixote, the indiscernibles ". Forthcoming in a collective monograph on Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote, Rodopi
  • "Image, Memory and Judgement. On Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government frescoes and his Allegory of Redemption". Forthcoming in Yolanda Plumley, Giuliano Di Bacco, Stefano Jossa, et al, Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Text, Music and Image from Machaut to Ariosto, Exeter, Exeter University Press
    Selected reviews:
  • "Brian Leiter (ed.), The Future for Philosophy, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2005", Les Études philosophiques, no. 2, 2007, 270-276
  • "Samuel C. Rickless, Plato's Forms in Transition. A Reading of the Parmenides, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007", Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 4 no. 2, 2007, 339-350
  • "Aldo Brancacci a Pierre-Marie Morel (eds,), Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18-20 September 2003), Brill, Leiden - Boston, 2007", Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 5, no. 1, 2008, 165-182
  • "Dominic Scott, Maieusis. Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat", Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 2009, 249-268
  • "Philostratus Redivivus [review article]". Folia philologica 133, no. 1-2, 2010, 183-188
  • "Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford University Press 2008", forthcoming in Elenchos