Interiorite Et Monde (Bibliotheque Des Textes Philosophiques - Poche)

by Jan Patočka, Erika Abrams (Translator)

"Le fait d'entrevoir, aux confins de la comprehension humaine des choses, la nature pure, la pure indifferenciation, close sur soi, du sujet et de l'objet, a entraine un changement fondamental dans notre conception de la phenomenologie transcendantale..." (Jan Patocka) Les manuscrits des annees 1939-1944 traduits dans ce volume presentent, en reponse a "la tache d'interpreter toute existence a partir des sources internes de la vie meme" formulee dans la conclusion du Monde naturel comme probleme philosophique et en complement des "Etudes sur le concept de monde" qui introduisent les Carnets philosophiques, une premiere ebauche de la revision patockienne de la phenomenologie transcendantale de Husserl. A proximite de Bergson, en parallele avec Merleau-Ponty, un point de depart d'une nouveaute radicale qui, vingt ans apres, nourrira la reflexion sur la phenomenologie "asubjective" et les mouvements de l'existence.

180 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published February 9, 2023

About the author

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 under the influence of some core Heideggerian themes (e.g. historicity, technicity, etc.) On the other hand, he also criticised Heideggerian philosophy for not dealing sufficiently with the basic structures of being-in-the-world, which are not truth-revealing activities (this led him to an appreciation of the work of Hannah Arendt). From this standpoint he formulated his own original theory of "three movements of human existence": 1) receiving, 2) reproduction, 3) transcendence.