Kryštof Boháček
Mgr. Kryštof Boháček, Ph.D., 1974
krystof.bohacek[at]gmail.com
Ph.D., ÚFaR, FF UK, 2009
Mgr., ÚFaR, FF UK, 2000
His main research interest lies in Plato and the classical Attic philosophy – the sophists, Socrates, tragedy and in the works of Aristotle. He specialises in rhetoric as philosophy, Gorgias, Isocrates, Aristotle, Neorhetoric, Neosophistic and other alternative conceptual schemes from historical as much as systematical point of view.
RESEARCH FIELD
Greek thought of the 6-4th. century b.c.
First focus: Plato and the classical attic philosophy – the sophists, Socrates, tragedy.
Second focus: Aristotle.
Main Research specialisation: Rhetoric as philosophy, Gorgias, Isocrates, Aristotle, Neorhetoric, Neosophistic and other alternative conceptual schemes from historical as much as systematical point of view.
Related studies: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Parmenides, Empedocles.
CAREER HISTORY
2009 (till today) EDITOR IN CHIEF
Aither. Journal for the Study of Greek and Latin Philosophical Traditions
2006 (till today) ASSISTANT LECTURER
Metropolitan University Prague
Lectures on interpretation, Composition studies, European traditions
2002 (till today) RESEARCH ASSISTENT
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Philosophical Institute
Research in ancient thought, editorship, publikations.
2002 (till today)ASSISTANT LECTURER
West Bohemian University, Pilsen, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (more than 350 students), special seminars.
2001/2002 SHORT-TERM SCHOLARSHIP at Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen
2001 - 2009 POSTGRADUATE STUDIES OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies Supervisor: Štěpán Špinka, PhD. Pedagogical duties, participation in conferences, research connected with dissertation.
