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Heretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most
exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory,
approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and
Heidegger. According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct,
and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with
life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe
declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth,
splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the
Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material
orientation. This book includes a translation of the Preface to the
French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.
Patocka, like few others before or since, combined what was best in
Husserl and Heidegger, but at the same time found for himself a
distinct, original philosophical voice. Both his originality and
his synthesis of the two dominant strands of classical
phenomenology are evident here, as Patocka pursues the threefold
theme of subject body, human community, and the phenomenological
understanding of "world." This volume is an excellent introduction
to philosophy in the phenomenological tradition.
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Plato and Europe (Paperback)
Jan Patocka; Translated by Petr Lom
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The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with
Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential
thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the
Communist party after World War II, he was banned from academia and
publication for the rest of his life, except for a brief time
following the liberalizations of the Prague spring of 1968. Joining
Vaclav Havel and Jiri Hajek as a spokesman for the Chart 77
human-rights declaration of 1977, Patocka was harassed by
authorities, arrested, and finally died of a heart attack during
prolonged interrogation.
"Plato and Europe," arguably Patocka's most important book,
consists of a series of lectures delivered in the homes of friends
after his last banishment from the academy just three years before
his death. Here, he presents his most mature ideas about the
history of Western philosophy, arguing that the idea of the care of
the soul is fundamental to the philosophical tradition beginning
with the Greeks. Explaining how the care of the soul is elaborated
as the problem of how human beings may make their world one of
truth and justice, Patocka develops this thesis through a treatment
of Plato, Democritus, and Aristotle, showing how considerations
about the soul are of central importance in their writings. He
demonstrates in vivid fashion how this idea forms the spiritual
heritage of Europe.
Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English
for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas,
this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka
ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of
Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the
evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian
phenomenology--intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality,
the subject-body; the concrete a priori, and transcendental
subjectivity. But rather than attempting to give a tour of
Husserl's workshop, Patocka is himself hard at work on Husserl's
problems.
The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with
Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential
thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the
Communist party after World War II, he was banned from academia and
publication for the rest of his life, except for a brief time
following the liberalizations of the Prague spring of 1968. Joining
Vaclav Havel and Jiri Hajek as a spokesman for the Chart 77
human-rights declaration of 1977, Patocka was harassed by
authorities, arrested, and finally died of a heart attack during
prolonged interrogation.
"Plato and Europe," arguably Patocka's most important book,
consists of a series of lectures delivered in the homes of friends
after his last banishment from the academy just three years before
his death. Here, he presents his most mature ideas about the
history of Western philosophy, arguing that the idea of the care of
the soul is fundamental to the philosophical tradition beginning
with the Greeks. Explaining how the care of the soul is elaborated
as the problem of how human beings may make their world one of
truth and justice, Patocka develops this thesis through a treatment
of Plato, Democritus, and Aristotle, showing how considerations
about the soul are of central importance in their writings. He
demonstrates in vivid fashion how this idea forms the spiritual
heritage of Europe.
Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of
history mean that he is considered one of the most important
philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely
available in English and the Anglophone world remains rather
unfamiliar with his work. In this new book of essential Patocka
texts, of which the majority have been translated from the original
Czech for the first time, readers will experience a general
introduction to the key tenets of his philosophy. This includes his
thoughts on the relationship between philosophy and political
engagement which strike at the heart of contemporary debates about
freedom, political participation and responsibility and a truly
pressing issue for modern Europe, what exactly constitutes a
European identity? In this important collection, Patocka provides
an original vision of the relationship between self, world, and
history that will benefit students, philosophers and those who are
interested in the ideals that underpin our democracies.
Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of
history mean that he is considered one of the most important
philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely
available in English and the Anglophone world remains rather
unfamiliar with his work. In this new book of essential Patocka
texts, of which the majority have been translated from the original
Czech for the first time, readers will experience a general
introduction to the key tenets of his philosophy. This includes his
thoughts on the relationship between philosophy and political
engagement which strike at the heart of contemporary debates about
freedom, political participation and responsibility and a truly
pressing issue for modern Europe, what exactly constitutes a
European identity? In this important collection, Patocka provides
an original vision of the relationship between self, world, and
history that will benefit students, philosophers and those who are
interested in the ideals that underpin our democracies.
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