Caring for the soul in a postmodern age : politics and phenomenology in the thought of Jan Patocka / Edward F. Findlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Findlay, Edward F., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977.

Patočka, Jan.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1977 the sixty-nine-year-old Czech philosopher Jan Patočka 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 Václav Havel, for publicly opposing the hypocrisy of the Czechoslovak Communist regime. Patočka had dedicated himself as a philosopher to laying the groundwork of what he termed a "life in truth."This book analyzes Patočka'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, Patočka presents a model of democratic politics that is ethical without being metaphysical, and transcendental without being foundational.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

“Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World”

Philosophy After the Death of Metaphysics

A Philosophy of History and a Theory of Politics

Politics and Ethics in the Twentieth Century

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.

ISBN:

9780791488065

0791488063

9780585483009

0585483000

OCLC:

61367524