James Mensch is a full Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He is also a member of the Central European Institute of Philosophy. His main areas of research are phenomenology and its contemporary social and political applications. He is the author of numerous articles and thirteen books, the most recent being Selfhood and Appearing, The Intertwining (Brill, 2018), and Patocka's Asubjective Phenomenology: Toward a New Concept of Human Rights (Königshausen & Neumann, 2016).