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Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death

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Editors:
  1. Gustav Strandberg

    1. Department of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

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  2. Hugo Strandberg

    1. Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

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  • Contains the first English translation of Jan Patočka's seminal essay, "The Phenomenology of Life After Death"
  • Reveals the historical context of Patočka essay
  • Reflects on the relation to those dearly departed and the consequences therein for our continued existence

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 128)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gustav Strandberg, Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Phenomenology of Afterlife

    • Jan Patočka
    Pages 13-24

  4. To Live After Death: Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts

    • Jan Frei
    Pages 25-35

  5. Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community

    • Gustav Strandberg
    Pages 37-52

  6. The Intimacy of Disappearance

    • Nicolas de Warren
    Pages 53-68

  7. Forgiveness and the Dead

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 69-81

  8. Postmortal Openness to Meaning

    • Tomáš Hejduk
    Pages 83-98

  9. The Other Modern Séances

    • Ondřej Beran
    Pages 99-120

  10. What Does It Mean to Love the Dead?

    • Erin Plunkett
    Pages 121-137

  11. Between Memory and History: Retracing Historical Knowledge Through a Phenomenology of Afterlife

    • Lovisa Andén
    Pages 139-152

  12. Drawing a Line or Blurring the Contour Between Animate and Inanimate with Clarice Lispector and Jan Patočka

    • Antony Fredriksson
    Pages 153-166

  13. “Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations

    • Niklas Forsberg
    Pages 167-179
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About this book

This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patočka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the departure of a loved one affects our continued existence. The premise of Patočka’s investigation is that our existence always takes place by and through an originary and reciprocal “being for others”.


The contributors in the volume extend the field of inquiry into the wider phenomenological and post-phenomenological discussion of death by being cognizant of how works of literature can broaden our understanding of the care of death, grief, forgiveness and non-reciprocal love. Also included are reflections on issues of philosophical anthropology, community, collective memory, and the ecstatic nature of life – issues that can all be related back to Patočka’s initial reflections, but which nonetheless radiate intoa myriad of directions. This volume appeals to students and researchers in the field.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

    Gustav Strandberg

  • Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

    Hugo Strandberg

About the editors

Gustav Strandberg is a philosopher and translator, based at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He is the author of a monograph on Patočka, entitled Politikens omskakning: negativitet, samexistens och frihet i Jan Patočkas tänkande (The Tremor of Politics: Negativity, Co-existence, and Freedom in the Thought of Jan Patočka) and the editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought, published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

Hugo Strandberg is associate professor of philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of several monographs, the two most recent being Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception and Forgiveness and Moral Understanding, both published by Palgrave (in 2015 and 2021).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death

  • Editors: Gustav Strandberg, Hugo Strandberg

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49547-2Published: 13 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49550-2Due: 01 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49548-9Published: 12 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 179

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, Ethics

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