Tvar a tvář: fenomenologické inspirace v matematice Petra Vopěnky

• Authors: Marie Větrovcová

Title variants

EN

Shape and Face: Phenomenological Inspirations in the Mathematics of Petr Vopěnka

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Ancient mathematics concerned itself with shapes, numbers and their relations, at rest and in motion. Not until modern geometry were shapes replaced by space. In this article I deal with the late thought of Petr Vopěnka: the return to shapes, intuition and his reflection of the history of mathematics in connection with phenomenological philosophy. I point to how, in his approach, shape conveys that which is beyond the horizon. Last but not least, I explore the relation of the mathematical and of shape to the phenomenality of the face, body and the other.

Keywords

EN

infinity; horizon,; shape; space; topology; face; the other; phenomenology

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 619-638
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marie Větrovcová

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic