Radek Chlup

doc. Mgr. Radek Chlup, Ph.D.

Job
  • zástupce ředitele (deputy head) - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
  • (Agenda) - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
  • (Agenda) - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Address

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Místnost č. 225

Courses Taught This Semester

Office Hours

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Research Interests

  • Contemporary political myths
  • Conteporary rituals
  • Greek Religion (myth, ritual)
  • Anthropology of Religion, theories of religion
  • Ancient Platonism and Neoplatonism

CV

  • born 1972
  • 1996 M.A. in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (with English Language and Literature as the second subject)
  • 1996–2003 PhD. at the Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (interrupted by the civil military service in 1998–9)
  • 1998–2000 lecturer  at the Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
  • since 2001 lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Facutry of Arts, Charles University, Prague
  • since 2010 “docent” of philosophy idem

Publications

Monographs

  • Proclus: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 327 pages (ISBN 978-05-21761-48-2) [Googlebooks]
  • Proklos, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2009, 456 pages (ISBN 978-80-87054-16-1)
  • Corpus Hermeticum, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2007, 440 pages (ISBN 978-80-87054-09-3)

English Articles and Book Chapters

Czech Articles and Book Chapter

Edited Books

  • R. Chlup (ed.), Pojetí duše v náboženských tradicích světa, Praha: DharmaGaia, 2007 (ISBN 978-80-86685-82-3)  [The Concept of the Soul in World’s Religious Traditions]
  • R. Chlup (ed.), Bůh a bohové: Pojetí božství v náboženských tradicích světa, Praha: DharmaGaia, 2004 (ISBN 80-86685-42-X) [God and the gods: The Concept of the Divine in the World’s Religious Traditions]
  • M. Havrda – R. Chlup – T. Vítek (eds.), Mediterranea: Sborník k padesátinám Zdeňka Kratochvíla, Praha: ÚFaR, 2002 [A Festschrift for Zdeněk Kratochvíl]

Textbooks

  • R. Chlup – Filip Horáček, Učebnice klasické řečtiny, Praha: Academia, 2012,  448 stran (ISBN 978-80-200-2123-6) [A Textbook of Classical Greek]

Translations from Ancient Greek

  • Proklos, O Platónových námitkách v Ústavě proti Homérovi a básnickému umění, in Radek Chlup, Proklos, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2009, s. 292–417 (ISBN 978-80-87054-16-1)
  • Corpus Hermeticum, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2007 (ISBN 978-80-87054-09-3)
  • Plútarchos, Proč už Pýthie nevěští ve verších, Praha: Oikúmené, 2006 (ISBN 80-7298-187-0)
  • Plútarchos, O delfském E, Praha: Hermann a synové, 1995

Teaching

Courses Taught Regularly

Courses Taught Regularly in the Past

Irregular Seminars

  • Conspiracy Theory and Religious Studies (ARL100358) – 2021/22
  • Cosmology and Society (Mary Douglas) (ARL100139) – 2008/09, 2014/15, 2020/21
  • Mythical Aspects of Modern Czech History (ARL100346) – 2020/21
  • Political Myths (ARL100331) – 2018/19
  • Marriage Rites (ARL100328) – 2018/19
  • Funeral Rites (ARL500100) – 2016/17
  • Symbolic Action in Public Space (ARL100320) – 2018/19
  • Theory of Ritual (ARL100040) – 2010/11, 2018/19
  • Ritual and its Interpretation (ARL100041, ARL100042) – 2009/10, 2016/17
  • Possession (ARL500069) – 2015/16, 2020/21
  • Healing Rituals (ARL100125) – 2007/08, 2014/15, 2019/20
  • Greek Tragedies and their Interpretations (ARL500049) – 2014/15
  • Greek Iconography (ARL500025) – 2013/14
  • Edmund Leach (ARL100244) – 2012/13
  • Myth and its Interpretation (ARL100083, ARL100084) – 2011/12
  • Violence and the Sacred (ARL100068) – 2005/06

Greek Reading Classes

  • Plotinus, Enn. III 2-3 – 2011/12
  • Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris – 2010/11
  • Epictetus – 2009/10
  • Sallustius, On the Gods and the Cosmos – 2008/09
  • Proclus, On the Objections of Plato Against Homer – 2006/07
  • Plato’s Myths – 2005/06, 2012/13
  • Sapiential Poetry – 2015/16

 
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