Lara Bonneau

Lara Bonneau serves as Researcher and Deputy Head of Department at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, and holds an Associate Researcher position at CEFRES (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales) in Prague since 2022.

Her research focuses on:

• German aesthetics from 1880–1930 and its philosophical foundations
• Kunstwissenschaft movement and Czech/Austrian theoretical developments
• Semiotic analysis of symbolic forms (Cassirer, Warburg)
• Aesthetic education frameworks
• Morphological traditions in philosophical anthropology
• Interdisciplinary theory of form and information
• Concepts of individuation in modern thought

Dr. Bonneau's scholarly contributions include a 2022 monograph on Aby Warburg published by Presses du réel, examining iconology through Warburg's Fragments on Expression. Her work bridges German idealism, Prague structuralism, and contemporary art theory.

Key scientific recognition includes:

• Post-doctoral PPLZ Fellowship for "Emil Utitz and the Science of Art" project (2019–2022)
• CEFRES Research Fellowship supporting comparative Central European aesthetics research (2015–2016)

Her research methodology integrates archival work from extended stays at the Warburg Institute Archives in London (2013–2018) with theoretical analysis of Central European art science traditions. Current projects examine the transmission of morphological thought across 19th–20th century philosophical anthropology.