Thinking After Europe (eBook, PDF)

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

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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: 9798881872403
• Artikelnr.: 74846684

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 Patocka 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 Ucník, 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 Patocka
3. Appendix
Part II: Dissidence and Political Commitment
4. Jan Patocka 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 Príbán
6. The Soul as Site of Dissidence, Simona Forti
Part III: Political Phenomenology
7. Polemos in Jan Patocka'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 Patocka's Philosophy of History, Nicolas De Warren
11. The Dark Night of the Care for the Soul - Politics and Despair in Jan Patocka's Sixth Heretical Essay, Daniel Leufer
12. The Heresy of History: Patocka's Reflections on Marx and Marxism, Francesco Tava
13. The End of H