Adolf Portmann A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life

Filip Jaroš is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hradec Králové. He spent one year (2017/8) as a postdoc researcher at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. He obtained his PhD in theoretical and evolutionary biology at Charles University in Prague. His main scholarly interests include the biosocial philosophy of Adolf Portmann, human-animal communication and the problem of anthropological difference. Filip Jaroš is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics and coedited a book about animal aesthetics, Krása a zvíře. Studie o vztahu estetických a etických hodnot zvířat [Beauty and the beast: essays on aesthetic and ethical values of animals, in Czech].

Jiří Klouda is an assistant professor at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. He is also working on a research project at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University Hradec Králové. His research focuses on Continental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of life sciences and topics concerning ancient Greek science, philosophy and literature. Among his most recent publications are “Wilhelm Dilthey: Lived Experience and the Symbolical Productivity of the Body” (In J. Parry – P. Allison, eds., Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education. Traditions of Practice and Philosophical Perspectives, London – New York: Routledge 2020); “Institution of Life in Gehlen and Merleau-Ponty” (In Human Studies, 41, 2018, with J. Halák).