Into the World: The Movement of Patočka's Phenomenology
Authors: Ritter, Martin
- Presents a comprehensive, in-depth interpretation of Patočka’s phenomenology
- Offers a critical appropriation of Patočka’s phenomenology by connecting it with non-phenomenological approaches
- Incorporates research originally written in Czech
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Critically evaluating and synthesizing all the previous research on the phenomenology of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, the book brings a new voice into contemporary philosophical discussions. It elucidates the development of Patočka’s phenomenology and offers a critical appropriation of his work by connecting it with non-phenomenological approaches.
The first half of the book offers a succinct, and systematizing, overview of Patočka’s phenomenology throughout its development to help readers appreciate the motives behind and grounds for its transformations. The second half systematically explicates, critically examines and creatively develops Patočka’s concept of the movement of existence as the most promising part of his asubjective phenomenology.
The book appeals to new readers of Patočka as well as his scholars, and to students and researchers of contemporary philosophy concerned with topics such as embodiment, personal identity, intersubjectivity, sociality, or historicity. By re-assessing Patočka’s philosophy of history and his civilizational analysis, it also helps to better articulate the question of the place of Europe in the post-European world. - About the authors
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Martin Ritter is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He specializes in phenomenology, critical theory and media philosophy. Martin Ritter has published numerous journal articles on Patočka’s thought and has taught several courses on Patočka’s philosophy; he also took part in editing Patočka’s Collected Works.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Into the World: The Movement of Patočka's Phenomenology
- Authors
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- Martin Ritter
- Series Title
- Contributions to Phenomenology
- Series Volume
- 104
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-23657-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-23657-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23656-4
- Series ISSN
- 0923-9545
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 183
- Topics
