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Jolana Poláková

Mellen Books by Jolana Poláková

• The Possibilities of Transcendence. Human Destructiveness and the Universality of Constructive Relations

• Searching for the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy. Tensions Between the Immanent and the Transcendent

About the author: Jolana Poláková studied philosophy and classical philology at the Faculty of Arts at Prague’s Charles University, receiving her PhD in 1975. During the 1970s, she applied herself to the research of creativity and ethics at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, which she had to leave in 1981 for political and ideological reasons. She was a pioneer in the then unofficial humanitarian movement. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, she resumed her work there. In 1993, she won the URAM Award for Excellence in Creative Scholarly Writing, and since 1994 she has been a member of the New York Academy of Science.

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