Tma tmoucí - Noc a tma v interdisciplinárních perspektivách a reflexích – Korábková Kateřina (2025)

The book "Darkness" examines the theme of night and darkness in the context of various disciplinary approaches and presents it as a remarkable phenomenon of human life that certainly deserves further, continually innovative contemplation. It explores night and darkness in a distinctly interdisciplinary manner: from a historical-anthropological perspective, in the contexts of literary and artistic reflections, or the broader use of night metaphor in science and culture.
Themes of the anthropology of night, superstitions, and ideas about supernatural beings, the use of the motif of night and darkness in literary texts, transmedia storytelling, or in the practice of creative writing illustrate the diversity and variability of perceptions of darkness and nighttime activities. The study of night and darkness calls for a reevaluation of approaches based on a preference for visual perception and offers a holistic view of human existence that includes sensations from other senses and experiences that become widely reproduced in our perception of the world.