Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death

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Frei, Jan
To Live After Death. Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts.
Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death. Cham: Springer, 2024 - (Strandberg, G.; Strandberg, H.), s. 25-35. Contributions to Phenomenology, 128. ISBN 978-3-031-49547-2
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Keywords : death * intersubjectivity * consciousness of the other * soul * symbolisms of the afterlife
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9_3

Situating the study on the “Phenomenology of afterlife” within the whole of Patočka’s thought, one can find several threads or complexes of ideas that could provide a context for the study and a background for its interpretation: phenomenological analyses of intersubjectivity, corporeity, temporality; the problem of the soul; the role of the other in our becoming ourselves: ways of dealing with our finitude. Surveying these contexts, I will try to find the reasons for the fundamental decision Patočka takes in his study on the afterlife: i.e., his decision to observe the afterlife only in our consciousness of - and in our actions inspired by - the other.
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