Jiří Pechar

Jiří Pechar (7 May 1929 – 22 August 2022) was a Czech philosopher and translator.

Jiří Pechar
Born7 May 1929 (1929-05-07)
Příbram, Czechoslovakia
Died22 August 2022 (2022-08-23) (aged 93)
Prague, Czech Republic
Occupation(s)philosopher, literary theorist and translator

Life and career

Born in Příbram, Pechar studied in history of literature at the Charles University, and worked as an editor for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, before being dismissed for political reasons in 1958.[1][2] He then worked as a freelance translator, translating in Czech works by Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jean-François Lyotard and Claude Lévi-Strauss among others, and was also an author of essays and collection of poems and a collaborator of magazines and journals.[1]

Pechar was officially rehabilitated after the Velvet Revolution, becoming a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the director of its 20th Century Philosophy department.[1] With his 1992 book Prostor imaginace he "filled a considerable gap by writing a book on psychoanalysis, overcoming at least partly the absence of interest in this domain that Czech philosophers have generally manifested".[3]

During his life Pechar was the recipient of various honors and accolades, including the title of Officer by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Tom Stoppard Prize.[1][2] He died on 22 August 2022, at the age of 93.[1][2]

References
  1. "Zemřel spisovatel a překladatel Jiří Pechar, držiteli Státní ceny bylo 93 let". Aktuálně (in Czech). 25 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  2. "Zemřel spisovatel, překladatel a filozof Jiří Pechar, bylo mu 93 letz". Ceske Noviny (in Czech). Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. Braidotti, Rosi (2014). After Poststructuralism: Transitions and Transformations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54680-1.

Further reading
  • Borecký, Felix. "Filosofie, literární kritika a imaginace v myšlení Jiřího Pechara / Philosophy, Literary Criticism and Imagination in Jiří Pechar’s Thought", in Svět literatury / World of Literature. XXIX (59):183-186; Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Vydavatelství, 2019.
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