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Jan Patočka

Born

in Turnov, Czech Republic

July 01, 1907

Died

March 13, 1977

Genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Plato ...more

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Jan Patočka (June 1, 1907, Turnov, Bohemia - March 13, 1977, Prague) is considered one of the most important contributors to Czech philosophical phenomenology, as well as one of the most influential central European philosophers of the 20th century. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl, who is considered the founder of phenomenology, and Martin Heidegger. During his studies in Freiburg he was also tutored by Eugen Fink, a relation which eventually turned into a lifelong philosophical friendship.

His works mainly dealt with the problem of the original, given world (Lebenswelt), its structure and the human position in it. He tried to develop this basically Husserlian concept unde ...more

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	Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History by Jan Patočka, James Dodd (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1975 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato and Europe by Jan Patočka, Petr Lom (Translation) 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body, Community, Language, World 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology by Jan Patočka, James Dodd (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Co jsou Češi? by Jan Patočka, Vladimír Jochmann (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	سقراط: آگاهی از جهل by Jan Patočka, محمود عبادیان (Translator) 3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Jan Patočka, Ludwig Landgrebe (Foreword), Erika Abrams (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evropa a doba poevropská 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Negativní platonismus 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorunsallıkta Yaşamak by Jan Patočka, Ahmet Kaan Ketboğa (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The point of history is not what can be uprooted or shaken, but rather the openness to the shaking.”
― Jan Patočka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

tags: history, meaning, shaking

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