The workshop was co-organized by Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and Society for Aesthetics (Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic). It was the fifth workhop organized within the framefork of the grant project "The Problems of Art in Jan Patočka's Thought" (GAČR P409/11/0324).
The event was focused on Patočkaˈs interpretations of literary works and motifs.