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Pages: 208
Authors: Jan Patočka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Open Court Publishing

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History begins inseparably with the birth of the polis and of philosophy. Both represent a unity in strife. History is life that no longer takes itself for gran
Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Edward F. Findlay
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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The first full exploration of the political thought of Jan Patocka, student of Husserl and Heidegger and mentor to Václav Havel.
Plato and Europe
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Jan Pato?ka
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his m
Body, Community, Language, World
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Jan Patočka
Categories: Body, Human (Philosophy)
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Body, Community, Language, World, here made available in English for the first time is Patocka's presentation of phenomenology as a living tradition - as a phil
The Gift of Death
Language: en
Pages: 123
Authors: Jacques Derrida
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the l