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Publisher: Open Court

Place: Chicago

Year: 1996

ISBN (Hardback): 9780812693361

ISBN (Paperback): 978081269337X

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Jan Patočka, Heretical essays in the philosophy of history, Chicago, Open Court, 1996

Heretical essays in the philosophy of history

Jan Patočka

Edited by
James Dodd

Open Court

1996

Abstract

Heretical Essays is Patočka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patočka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. According to Patočka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patočka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation.

Publication details

Publisher: Open Court

Place: Chicago

Year: 1996

ISBN (Hardback): 9780812693361

ISBN (Paperback): 978081269337X

Full citation:

Jan Patočka, Heretical essays in the philosophy of history, Chicago, Open Court, 1996