Bøker av Jan Patocka

Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patočka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writings assembled in Living in Problematicity examine the role of the philosopher in the world, how the world constrains us through ideology, and how freedom is possible through the recognition of our human condition in the problems of the world. These views outline Patočka's political philosophy and how his later engagement in the political sphere with the human rights initiative Charter 77 corresponds with the ideas he maintained throughout his life. This short and engaging book--published in conjunction with the prestigious philosophy press OIKOYMENH--is an ideal English-language introduction to the most significant Czech philosopher in recent history.

The first text to critically discuss Edmund Husserl's concept of the "life-world," The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem reflects Jan Patoka's youthful conversations with the founder of phenomenology and two of his closest disciples, Eugen Fink and Ludwig Landgrebe. This translation includes an introduction by Landgrebe and two afterwords added by Patoka in the 1970s.

The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his most mature ideas about the history of Western philosophy.

In this text the Czech philosopher, Patocka, pursues the threefold theme of subject body, human community, and the phenomenological understanding of the "world". The work of Patocka blends the thought of Hussel and Heidegger, with his own distinct philosophical voice.

This work covers the whole of Husserl's output, from the "Philosophy of Arthithmetic" to "The Crisis of the European Sciences", and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology. These include intentionality, categorial intuition and temporality.

This is a translation of Patocka's final work in which he treats prehistory through the concepts of Husserl and Heidegger. He believes the technological society to be decadent, and in the 20th century, war has become the basic reality which prevails through apparent "peace".