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Former Minister of Education of the Czech Republic, Jan Sokol is known for his public commitment. In his younger years, he worked as goldsmith and precision mechanic. His interest in philosophy has led him to teach in the Czech Republic and outside, and to translate from French and German philosophy (Lévinas, Blondel, Foucault, Teilhard, Derrida, Rosenzweig, Gadamer and so forth). He explores philosophy in its everyday dimension, as demonstrated in his last book published in English, Thinking about Ordinary Things (2013). Among his latest publications, he published in 2014 his Etika, život, instituce on personal freedom and its institutional support. He currently teaches at the Charles University.Read more.