Documentation Collection of Zdeněk Neubauer (1942–2016)

The origin of the collection goes back to the editorial work undertaken by the department during Neubauer's lifetime and especially to the preservation of a part of the documentary estate, which forms the core of the collection, after his death. For the purpose of editorial and documentary work, the collection represents a structured open archive of written and electronic data from Neubauer’s work as well as personal estate.

The collection is a basic, or more precisely, primary heuristic platform for the study of Neubauer's life, work and activity. Furthermore, from a broader perspective, it is also relevant for research on unofficial philosophy and science in the era of normalization, samizdat and cultural dissent. The initial collection and the documentation lent by the originator to various colleagues influenced the structural manipulation without a suitable functional pattern, many individual items were completed after the fact, many documents were torsional when first collected, many units were incomplete, and most documentation and manuscripts, typed on the typewriter of the time and later computerised (and printed), were written in several variants.

The collection is supplemented by samizdat and related materials from private or institutional sources (especially the personal archive of M. Němejc, the Libri prohibiti samizdat library, the Václav Havel Library, etc.). The basic scheme and the current form of the layout was created between 2022 and 2024 by M. Suchomelová in cooperation with the relevant doctoral project, which represents the principal source of current basic information:

L. Nováková, Biolog a filosof Zdeněk Neubauer. Studie k intelektuální biografii, Přírodovědecká fakulta UK, dizertační práce

Publishing of the work

The Faculty of Science was granted publishing rights to Neubauer's work by the heirs. In order for interested parties to publish a work by Neubauer (either alone or as part of another work), it is necessary to confront the relevance of the source text in relation to the granting of permission, given the information stated above, as, for example, unauthorised copies, unreliable, incomplete or otherwise irrelevant versions are still circulating. Publishing at the department is mainly carried out in a long-term cooperation with the Malvern publishing house and is gradually refined editorially.

Editorial Advisory Board: M. Dudziková, V. Hladký, J. Joseph, M. Němejc, J. Neustupa, L. Nováková, L. Ovčáčková, T. Hermann

Selected editions with other relevant supplementary data:

Z. Neubauer, O počátku, cestě a znamení časů. Úvahy o vědě a vědění, ed. A. Markoš, F. Cvrčková, V. Cílek, J. Hlaváček, Praha 2007

Z. Neubauer, J. Fiala, Střetnutí paradigmat a řád živé skutečnosti, ed. A. Markoš, Praha 2011.

Z. Neubauer, Hledání společného světa. Úvahy o filosofii a proměnách vědění, ed. L. Nováková, T. Hermann, J. Hlaváček, Praha 2017.

L. Kováč, Z. Neubauer, Listy o biologii. Korespondence 1975-1990 a další texty, ed. L. Nováková a A. Markoš, Praha 2019.

Z. Neubauer, Bůh a příroda. Filosofické úvahy o náboženství a vědě 1979-1983, ed. T. Hermann a Z. Daňková, Praha 2019.

A collection of theoretical-biological papers in two volumes is being prepared.