An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology - Softcover

Patocka, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812699807 ISBN 13: 9780812699807

Publisher: Open Court, 2018

Synopsis

Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology--intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality, the subject-body; the concrete a priori, and transcendental subjectivity. But rather than attempting to give a tour of Husserl's workshop, Patocka is himself hard at work on Husserl's problems.

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Review:

"Jan Patocka, the great Czech philosopher and mentor of Vaclav Havel, was almost alone among Husserl's later students in having devoted himself to active research on Husserl's own problems. The results of his work are encapsulated here, in lectures originally published in mimeographed form by Patocka's students in Prague and now made available in English for the first time. They convey a precise and scholarly introduction to Husserl's philosophy, but are at the same time a powerful document of their time--a time of struggle, against communism, and on behalf of philosophical truth." --Barry Smith, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, author of Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano

About the Author:

Jan Patocka is now considered to have been one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a student of both Husserl and Heidegger. He lived most of his adult life in Communist Czechoslovakia, where he was at times banned from publishing his work and from holding academic positions. Having written his Heretical Essays, Patocka defied the Communist regime as one of the spokespersons associated with Charta 77. He died in 1977, following two months of police interrogation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Court
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0812699807
• ISBN 13: 9780812699807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Dodd James