Overview
- Patocka’s high relevance confirmed by the leading phenomenologists
- Patocka’s constructive criticism of Husserl and Heidegger explained and accepted by the leading phenomenologists
- Jan Patocka – an unknown philosopher from behind the late "iron curtain" – is for the first time presented to broader audience by the leading contemporary phenomenologists
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 61)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Patočka’s Appropriation of Classical Phenomenology
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From Negative Platonism to Asubjective Phenomenology
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The European Heritage: Politics, History and Religion
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About this book
Whereas for the wider public Jan Patocka is known mainly as a defender of human rights and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, who died in Prague several days after long interrogations by secret police of the Communist regime, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and inspiring thinker, who in an original way elaborated the great impulses of European thought – mainly Husserl’s phenomenology and Heidegger’s philosophy of existence. Patocka also reflected on history and the future of humanity in a globalized world and laid the foundations of an original philosophy of history. His work is a subject of lively philosophical discussion especially in French and German-speaking countries, and recently also in Spanish-speaking, in U.S.A., and in the Far East.
Scholars from around the world who are interested in the philosophy of Jan Patocka gathered in Prague to commemorate his centenary and the thirtieth anniversary of his death. The conference explored the significance of his work and its continuing influence on contemporary philosophy.
The volume presents selected papers from the conference in English language.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book is a collection of twenty papers selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in Prague in April 2007 to commemorate the centenary of Jan Patočka’s birth. Its publication is particularly welcome. … this volume provides a very stimulating overview of Patočka’s work, and it will be of substantial value to anyone with a serious interest in phenomenology … . ” (Bryan Smyth, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXI (5), 2011)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology
Book Subtitle: Centenary Papers
Editors: Erika Abrams, Ivan Chvatík
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9124-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9123-9Published: 06 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3364-0Published: 01 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9124-6Published: 29 September 2010
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 300
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion