Asubjective Phenomenology (eBook)

Lubica Ucník, Anita Williams, Ivan Chvatík
Jan Patocka's Project of an Asubjective Phenomenology, and the Movement of Human Existence

Part I: Jan Patocka

Jan Patocka
Husserl's Subjectivism and the Call for an Asubjective Phenomenology

Jan Patocka
Epoche and Reduction: Some Observations

Part II: Asubjective Phenomenology

Ivan Chvatík
Patocka's Project of an Asubjective Phenomenology

Michael Gubser
Jan Patocka's Transcendence to the World

Part III: The Three Movements of Human Existence

Josef Moural
Phenomenology, History, and Responsibility for One's Life

Inês Pereira Rodrigues
A World of Possibilities: The Cosmological World and the Movement of Existence in Jan Patocka

Émilie Tardivel
Autonomy and Phenomenology: Patocka's Approach

Part IV: Patockian Reflections on Modern Society

Ciaran Summerton
Three Perspectives on Politics and History: Patocka, Hayek and French Positivism

Jakub Homolka
The Problem of Meaning in the Rational (Super)Civilisation: Patocka's Interpretation of Modernity after World War II

Riccardo Paparusso
Life, Technology, Christianity: Patocka's Sacrifice for Nothing and its Economic-Mythical Roots

Anthony Backhouse
Patocka's Observations on the Meaning of Beauty in Ancient Greece

Part V: Patocka on Meaning

Ivan Chvatík
Patocka's Philosophy of Meaning in Human Life and History

Anita Williams
The Meaning of the Mathematical

Lubica Ucník
Movement and Human Existence: The Mysterium of Mundanity

Notes on Contributors

Jan Patocka's Life and Work

Contributors

Index