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Text poskytuje stručný úvod do prací Bruna Latoura pro religionisty. Jedná se o recenzní esej k prvnímu knižnímu překladu Latourových textů do češtiny - knize Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem: Výbor z textů 1998-2013. Článek se také věnuje základním principům ANT, jež nejsou rozebírány v knize samotné (činitelství, přenos, psaní vědeckého textu, symetrie, etnometodologické motivace, praktičnost a zaměření na praktiky), a podrobněji se zaobírá Latourovými rozbory náboženství a umění. V kritické části text rozebírá nedostatky Latourových analýz náboženství a ukazuje, že vhodnou cestu k jejich překonání je dodržování principů ANT vypracovaných analýzami jiných oblastí, než je "náboženství". The text aims to provide a short introduction to the work of Bruno Latour for scholars studying religion. It is written in the form of a review essay of the first translation of his work into Czech, published in the book entitled Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem: Výbor z textů 1998-2013 (To Trace and Compose Worlds with Bruno Latour: Selected Essays 1998-2013). In addition, it also reviews some of the principles of ANT which are not covered in the book itself (agency, translations, writing scientific accounts, symmetry, ethnomethodological motivations, a focus on practices and practicality) and analyzes in detail Latour's understanding of art and religion. In the critical part of the essay, a fundamental shortcoming in Latour's analyses of religion is identified and it is suggested how to overcome it by being faithful to the Latourian program applied in other areas of his work.

Václav Drozd Object oriented political theory? A contribution of object oriented philosophy for political theory Abstract (in English): This diploma thesis is concerned with the turn to materiality and object in contemporary philosophy and explores its impact on political theory. It focuses on conceptions trying to reformulate the relation between subject and object, culture and nature or human and inhuman entities - symetrical ontology of Bruno Latour, speculative realism and object-oriented ontology. The aim of the study is to identify the benefits of these aproaches for political theory. The first frame topic important for investigated theories is the relation of human and state towards complex technologies. The second general topic is the existence under conditions of anthropocene and climate change. Keywords: anthropocene, speculative realism, object, corelationism, actor, vibrant matter, technologies, symmetry, actor-network-theory, Latour

English Abstract This Master Degree (Mgr.) thesis, takes up the topic of so called Military Revolution theory debate, focusing on historical and social developmental process, unfolding in the Early modern Europe. Military revolution is conceptualised as a source of far reaching societal change, having a civilisational dimension, contributing to overall weberian rationalisation process, happening in the Occident. In this text, military revolution is theoretically approached as a non-substantional developmental process and its structure and dynamics are analyzed using customized version of actor-network-theory of Bruno Latour. In this attempt, usual assumptions of natural ontological continuity, totality and developmental character of social realm are critically suppressed. Theoretical outcome of this thesis, based upon historical evidences, confirms, that even using this profoundly critical approach, military revolution possesses a distinctive quality of a developmental process and it can serve as a strong cognitive instrument of social sciences for researching Early modernity in Europe. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)