| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 259 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. "Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World": An Interpretation of Husserl and Heidegger -- 3. Philosophy After the Death of Metaphysics: Patocka and Greek Thought -- 4. Philosophy of History and a Theory of Politics -- 5. Politics and Ethics in the Twentieth Century -- 6. Conclusion: Foundations and Philosophy, Politics and Postmoderism -- App. Patocka's Reception in the English-Language Literature |
| Summary |
"In 1977 the sixty-nine-year-old Czech philosopher Jan Patocka died from a brain hemorrhage following a series of interrogations by the Czechoslovak secret police. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he had been arrested, along with young playwright Vaclav Havel, for publicly opposing the hypocrisy of the Czechoslovak Communist regime. Patocka had dedicated himself as a philosopher to laying the groundwork of what he termed a "life in truth."" "This book analyzes Patocka's philosophy and political thought and illuminates the synthesis in his work of Socratic philosophy and its injunction to "care for the soul." In bridging the gap, not only between Husserl and Heidegger, but also between postmodern and ancient philosophy, Patocka presents a model of democratic politics that is ethical without being metaphysical, and transcendental without being foundational."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977
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| SUBJECT |
Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977 fast |
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Patočka, Jan. swd |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Phänomenologie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585483000 |
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9780585483009 |
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0791454851 |
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9780791454855 |
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079145486X |
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9780791454862 |
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9780791488065 |
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0791488063 |
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