The Responsibility of the "Shaken": Jan Patočka and his "Care for the Soul" in the "Post-European" World

0352099 - FLÚ 2011 RIV NL eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Chvatík, Ivan
The Responsibility of the "Shaken": Jan Patočka and his "Care for the Soul" in the "Post-European" World.
Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology: Centenary Papers. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011 - (Chvatík, I.; Abrams, E.), s. 263-279. Contributions To Phenomenology, 61. ISBN 978-90-481-9123-9.
[An international conference to commemorate Jan Patočka 1907 - 1977 and the 37th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle. Praha (CZ), 22.04.2007-28.04.2007]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : Jan Patočka * phenomenology
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

In his late essays of the 1970s Patočka inquires into the essence of European civilization—its birth in Ancient Greece, its formation in medieval Christianity, its success in producing modern natural science, and its fall in the World Wars of the twentieth century. He asks what legacy old Europe has bequeathed to mankind in the post-European, globalized world. One of the main components of this legacy is the Christian religion. The paper attempts to explicitly reconstruct Patočka’s indeed very heretical formulation of this religion as introducing a wholly new era in world history.
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