Lukáš Novák Books

Under the influence of the post-Fregean logical analysis, in the present discourse relationality tends to be identified with polyadicity and relations with universal polyadic predicates. This essay is an attempt to retrieve the Aristotelian understanding of relations as a genuine feature of the world of particulars, consisting of various kinds of “directedness” or “being towards” of one particular thing towards another. It emerges, however, that existing traditional theories are haunted with serious problems so that none of them appears to be defensible. The author undertakes a critical analysis of some of the most important conceptions of relations proposed within the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition and tentatively proposes his own Neo-Aristotelian solution.

Karin Tidbeck's debut collection showcases her unique storytelling prowess, blending elements of fantasy and speculative fiction. Drawing inspiration from literary giants like Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft, the stories explore surreal landscapes and complex characters, inviting readers into thought-provoking realms. Tidbeck's imaginative narratives challenge perceptions of reality, weaving together themes of identity, existence, and the uncanny, making this collection a compelling addition to contemporary literature.

Česká učebnice logiky se snaží buď seznámit studenta systematicky se současným pojetím logiky, nebo vyložit historickým způsobem její dějiny, případně oba přístupy kombinují. Tato kniha se tomuto standardu vymyká: nepojednává o aristotelské logice ani historicky, ani ze systematického hlediska moderního chápání logiky, nýbrž snaží se vyložit ji sice důsledně systematicky, nicméně tak, jak aristotelská logika reflektovala sama sebe. Cílem autorů je představit aristotelskou logiku "zevnitř": nikoliv jako překonanou historickou fázi vývoje, nýbrž jako svébytný propracovaný systém, který je vybudovaný na vlastních filozofických předpokladech a který nelze dobře pochopit, bude-li interpretován z hlediska předpokladů logiky moderní.

Tato kniha není slovník, ačkoli se z ní dozvíte informace o všem od autenticity až po zipy. Není to ani autobiografie, třebaže předkládá zevrubný a vysoce osobní odborný názor na současnou kulturu. Je to nepostradatelný nástroj, který čtenáři pomůže lépe porozumět modernímu světu. V této knize se píše o tom, co z díla Andyho Warhola dělá pravý padělek, o vzniku národních identit nebo o sběratelské mánii. Pojednává o světě, tak jak je vidět ze zpětného zrcátka ve videohře Grand Theft Auto V, o digitálních ornamentech a o naší lásce k nedokonalostem. Je o popíjení suchého martini ve vídeňském podniku Adolfa Loose American Bar a o architektuře ve filmech Alfreda Hitchcocka, o módě a technologii, politice a umění.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEYejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With Me is a story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the power of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves, and those we love, from heartbreak.

Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of promise. But as war becomes inevitable, their lives are transformed in profound ways.

The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of family.

Als een dertiger, in de ban van een kunstenares een relatie met haar wil beginnen, worden de kunstenares en zijn huisgenoot verliefd op elkaar.

New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968-a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter-Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubček's "socialism with a human face" is smiling on the world.Meanwhile, Sam Wareham, First Secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with both a diplomat's cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konečkova, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. For the first time, nothing seems off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubček, and the Red Army is amassed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?With this shrewd, engrossing, and sensual novel, Simon Mawer cements his status as one of the most talented writers of historical spy fiction today.

Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts - the master of a new kind of realism.--Publisher description.