Into the World: The Movement of Patočka’s Phenomenology

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Ritter, Martin
Into the World: The Movement of Patočka’s Phenomenology.
Cham: Springer, 2019. 183 s. Contributions to phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 104. ISBN 978-3-030-23656-4
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA16-23046S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Patočka * Heidegger * Husserl * Intersubjectivity * Body * Soul * Movement of Existence * Temporality * Civilization * Philosophy of History * Inwardness * Natural World
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Critically evaluating and synthesizing 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 explicates Patočka’s ideas on 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.
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