| III. Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| Name: | Section of Humanities and Philology |
| Description: | Research projects carried out by the institutes of this section are also of considerable importance for the preservation and advancement of culture and education throughout the nation. In literary science, researchers have been taking a new look at the post-war period of Czech literature, including the samizdat and exile literature. Classical studies, on the other hand, are focused on Latin literature, analysing the available lists of old literary documents in our country to the year 1800. Linguistics converges on research on the national language and its historical development. Philosophy has been involved in the study of the twentieth century philosophical schools - phenomenology and existential philosophy as well as analytical philosophy and the theory of science. The Institute of Philosophy is also evaluating the heritage of such great Czech thinkers as Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) and Jan Patocka. Oriental studies, a branch which has enjoyed a long tradition in our country, have been dealing with Oriental languages and the history and culture of the Near East, India, China and the broader Arab world. Apart from the traditional subjects concerning material and spiritual folk culture, ethnography and folklore studies have tackled issues concerning different ethnic groups and their emigration, re-emigration and adaptation into the Czech milieu. The section is comprised of six institutes having a total of 360 employees, of whom 250 are graduate research workers. |
| Institutions: | Institute of Ethnology of the ASCR, v. v. i. Institute of Philosophy of the ASCR, v. v. i. Oriental Institute of the ASCR, v. v. i. Institute of Slavonic Studies of the ASCR, v. v. i. Institute of Czech Literature of the ASCR, v. v. i. Institute of the Czech Language of the ASCR, v. v. i. |
