Thinking After Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Jan Patocka and Politics
Redaktion: Tava, Francesco; Meacham, Darian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jan Patocka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier. As a political dissident in communist Czechoslovakia he also became a moral and political inspiration to a generation of Czechs, including Václav Havel. He accomplished this in a time of intense political repression when not even the hint of a unified Europe seemed visible by showing in exemplary fashion how concrete thought can be without renouncing in any way its depth.

Europe as an idea and a political project is a central issue in contemporary political theory. Patocka's political thought offers many original insights into questions surrounding the European project. Here, for the first time, a group of leading scholars from different disciplines gathers together to discuss the specific political impact of Patocka's philosophy and its lasting significance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783486861
• Artikelnr.: 45972450

Autorenporträt

Francesco Tava is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy at the KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of The Risk of Freedom (2015). Darian Meacham is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He is the editor of Medicine and Society: New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (2015). Contributors: Suzi Adams, Senior Lecturer, Flinders University of South Australia; Marion Bernard, Postdoctoral Scholar, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Tamara Caraus, Postdoctoral Scholar, New Europe College¿Bucarest; Ivan Chvatík, Director of the Jan Patöka Archive, Prague; James Dodd, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New School of Social Research; Simona Forti, Professor of Political Philosophy, Università del Piemonte Orientale; Ludger Hagedorn, Professor, IWM Vienna and New York University; Daniel Leufer, Graduate Student, University of Leuven; Giuseppe Menditto, Postdoctoral Scholar, Università di Roma La Sapienza; James Mensch, Professor of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague; Riccardo Paparusso, Lecturer, Angelicum University, Rome; Jiri Priban, Professor, Cardiff University; Teresa Pullano, Postdoctoral Scholar, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Ovidiu Stanciu, Graduate Student, Bergische Universität Wuppertal; Michael Staudigl, Senior Lecturer, University of Vienna; Lubica U¿ník, Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University, Australia; Nicolas De Warren, Professor, University of Leuven

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction / Acknowledgements / Part I: Intellectuals and Opposition 1. Translators' Preface / 2. Intellectuals and Opposition, Jan Patöka / 3. Appendix / Part II: Dissidence and Political Commitment / 4. Jan Patöka and the Possibility of a Spiritual Politics, Ivan Chvatík / 5. Resisting Fear: On Dissent and the Solidarity of the Shaken in Contemporary European and Global Society, Jiri P
íbá
/ 6. The Soul as Site of Dissidence, Simona Forti / Part III: Political Phenomenology / 7. Polemos in Jan Patöka's Political Thought, James Dodd / 8. Supercivilisation and Biologism, Darian Meacham / 9. Caring for the Asubjective Soul, James Mensch / Part IV: Philosophy of History / 10. He Who Saw the Deep: The Epic of Gilgamesh in Patöka's Philosophy of History, Nicolas De Warren / 11. The Dark Night of the Care for the Soul - Politics and Despair in Jan Patöka's Sixth Heretical Essay, Daniel Leufer / 12. The Heresy of History: Patöka's Reflections on Marx and Marxism, Francesco Tava / 13. The End of History and After: Rethinking Kojève and Patöka on the Idea of Post-History, Riccardo Paparusso / Part V: Rethinking the Community / 14. On the Significance of the Ancient Greek Polis for Patöka and Castoriadis: Philosophy, Politics, History, Suzi Adams / 15. Patöka's Radical and Agonistic Politics, Tamara Caraus / 16. Patöka's Figures of Political Community, Marion Bernard / 17. This is a Mathematical Certainty: Patoc
ka and the Neoliberal Ideology,
ubica U
ník / Part VI: Europe and Post-Europe / 18. Europe, Post-Europe and Eurocentrism, Karel Novotný / 19. Europe and the Oblivion of the World: From Husserl to Patöka, Ovidiu Stanciu / 20. Europe's Twentieth Century: History of Wars and War as History, Ludger Hagedorn / Bibliography / Index