02909nam 2200565Ia 450 991080824370332120200520144314.00-7914-8806-30-585-48300-0(CKB)111087027856342(OCoLC)61367524(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587294(SSID)ssj0000118212(PQKBManifestationID)11133248(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118212(PQKBWorkID)10050269(PQKB)11556015(MiAaPQ)EBC3408095(OCoLC)53924731(MdBmJHUP)muse5913(Au-PeEL)EBL3408095(CaPaEBR)ebr10587294(DE-B1597)684523(DE-B1597)9780791488065(EXLCZ)9911108702785634220020308d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCaring for the soul in a postmodern age politics and phenomenology in the thought of Jan Patocka /Edward F. FindlayAlbany State University of New York Pressc20021 online resource (267 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5485-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- “Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World” -- Philosophy After the Death of Metaphysics -- A Philosophy of History and a Theory of Politics -- Politics and Ethics in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexIn 1977 the sixty-nine-year-old Czech philosopher Jan Patočka died from a brain hemorrhage following a series of interrogations by the Czechoslovak secret police. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he had been arrested, along with young playwright Václav Havel, for publicly opposing the hypocrisy of the Czechoslovak Communist regime. Patočka had dedicated himself as a philosopher to laying the groundwork of what he termed a "life in truth."This book analyzes Patočka's philosophy and political thought and illuminates the synthesis in his work of Socratic philosophy and its injunction to "care for the soul." In bridging the gap, not only between Husserl and Heidegger, but also between postmodern and ancient philosophy, Patočka presents a model of democratic politics that is ethical without being metaphysical, and transcendental without being foundational.Philosophy, ModernPhilosophy, Modern.199/.437Findlay Edward F.1965-1695227MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808243703321Caring for the soul in a postmodern age4074316UNINA