The selected writings of Jan Patočka : care for the soul / edited by Ivan Chvatík and Erin Plunkett ; translated by Alex Zucker, with additional translations by Andrea Rehberg and David Charlston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977, author.

Contributor:

Chvatík, Ivan, editor.

Plunkett, Erin, editor.

Zucker, Alex, translator.

Rehberg, Andrea, translator.

Charlston, David, 1953- translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977--Translations into English.

Patočka, Jan.

Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977.

Philosophy, Czech.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages of plates, xxii, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Care for the soul

The soul in the polls

The whole and the natural world

Phenomenology, Objectivity, and Technology

Asubjective Phenomenology

Patocka's aesthetic and literary criticism

Myth, Guilt, and Uncertainty

History and the movement of life

pt. ONE Early Texts

1. A Few Remarks on the Concept of "World History" (1935)

2. The Idea of Education and its Relevance Today (1938)

pt. TWO Care for the Soul

3. Limping Pilgrim Josef Capek (1950

1964)

4. On the Soul in Plato (1972)

5. Comenius and the Open Soul (1970)

pt. THREE Phenomenology

6. The Natural World and Phenomenology (1967)

7. What is Phenomenology? (1975)

pt. FOUR Arts and Culture

8. Time, Myth, Faith (1952)

9. Art and Time (1966)

10. Time, Eternity, and Temporality in the Work of Karel Hynek Macha (1967)

11. On the Principle of Scientific Conscience (1968)

12. The Writer's Concern (Toward a Philosophy of Literature) (1969)

13. Ivanov (1970)

14. The Truth of Myth in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1971)

15. On Faust: The Myth of the Pact with the Devil

-Observation on the Variants of the Faust Legend (1973)

pt. FIVE Philosophy of History

16. The Spiritual Foundations of Life in Our Time (1970)

17. The Dangers of Technicization in Science according to E. Husserl, and the Essence of Technology as Danger according to M. Heidegger (Varna Lecture, 1973)

18. The Spiritual Person and the Intellectual (1975)

19. An Outline of History (1976).

Notes:

Translated from the Czech.

Includes bibliographical references (329-357 pages) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781350139107

1350139106

9781350139091

1350139092

OCLC:

1249629848