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The second volume of author portraits by writer Pavel Kosatík confirms the encouraging news: In Czech society in the 20th and early 21st centuries, a number of remarkable personalities or – in the words of Jan Patočka – spiritual people grew up and are still growing up. Kosatík writes about them in his characteristic way, that is, in a readable manner, with a feeling for the vicissitudes of personal stories, but at the same time concisely and economically. The series of fifty texts, which were published every week on the Deník N website and in its printed form, can also be read as an inviting invitation to a deeper study of the life and work of interesting women and men – starting with the late sociologist Ivo Možný and ending with the youngest of Kosatík's selection, philosopher Tereza Matějčková. We invite you to a debate with author Pavel Kosatík, philosopher and journalist Tereza Matějčková, journalist, screenwriter and presenter Petr Fischer and philosopher Václav Němec. The evening was conducted by Jáchym Topol.