A story without a plot, and the paradox of a private/public man: Lessons on masculinity from Patočka, Levinas, and Wenders

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=63d-TM8GOB" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=63d-TM8GOB</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2025.17.4.7" target="_blank" >10.31577/WLS.2025.17.4.7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A story without a plot, and the paradox of a private/public man: Lessons on masculinity from Patočka, Levinas, and Wenders
Original language description
This article explores masculinity through the lens of Jan Patočka's philosophical insights, based on Czech writer and dramatist Ivan Vyskočil's texts about mascu- line-powerful "mastodons", Wim Wenders's film Perfect Days (2023). We use an analysis of Levinas's enigmatic concept of la caresse (the caress). This concept is rooted in Levinas's understanding of intersubjectivity and the non-invasive rela- tionship with the other and used to explore its implications for gender roles and how they are changing. In order to understand this specific shift, the article con- trasts perspectives on public and private spheres, highlighting Patočka's critique of societal power dynamics and victimhood. The analysis of Wenders's film under- lines his critique of traditional gender norms, reflecting contemporary discourses on masculinity and identity in terms of the revolt of existential care and passivity, which is the opposite of the traditional masculine gender role, which also formed the construction of the analyzed stories.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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