Jan Patočka

January Patocka ( born June 1, 1907 in Turnov, † March 13, 1977 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak philosopher.

Life

Patocka allowed to matriculate in 1925 at Charles University in the subjects of Romance Languages, Slavic Studies and Philosophy, 1928 went to the Sorbonne in Paris, where he first met Edmund Husserl. In 1931 he wrote his dissertation and teaches philosophy since 1932, but goes in the same year to study at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin and studied in Freiburg since 1933 phenomenology.

There he is taught by Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Here he also met his future lifelong friend, the Husserl wizard Eugen Fink. In the same year he received a professorship at the Gymnasium in Prague. He is one of the founders of the German -Czech Cercle Philosophique de Prague, elected in the same year to his secretary, the German side took Ludwig Landgrebe.

In 1936 he qualified with his work Přirozený svět jako filosofický problem ( The natural world as a philosophical problem), which influenced the Czech philosophy for years to come. In 1937, he takes the place of the responsible editor of the philosophical journal Česká mysl ( Czech spirit ). In 1938 he became a member of the Paris Institut International de Philosophie.

During the Nazi and Communist dictatorship from 1968 to 1972 prohibited him up to the years 1948 to 1950 and after the Prague Spring any activity at the University of Patocka and worked as a translator at the Masaryk Institute, Educational Institute of the Academy of Sciences and the philosophical Institute. He also lectured in private rooms, in the sixties as a guest lecturer in Germany and France. 1968 appointed to Patocka professor at the Charles University, he was forced to retire in 1972.

Patocka 1977, together with Václav Havel and Jiří Hájek spokesman for the Charter 77 Then he was interrogated again and again. After one of these interrogations he had to be rushed to a hospital and died of apoplexy. His funeral was the event of the anti-communist resistance.

Works

Thus, the estate of Jan Patocka not the Czechoslovak authorities fell into the hands, it was copied and brought to Vienna. There he was documented and scientifically. In addition to numerous Samisdatveröffentlichungen before 1989 there is a German -language edition of works, and since 1990 a Czech Complete Edition is edited.

German -language publications

  • January Patocka - Selected Writings. Editor / edited at the IWM Vienna, published / published by Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart from 1987 to 1992. Volume I: Art and time. Edited by Klaus Nellen and Ilya Srubar. Introduction by Walter Biemel. 1987, ISBN 3-608-91460-9, 597 pp.
  • Volume II: Heretical Essays on the Philosophy of History. Edited by Klaus Nellen and Jiri Nemec. Introduction by Paul Ricoeur. 1988, ISBN 3-608-91461-7, 497 pp.
  • Volume III: The natural world as a philosophical problem. Phenomenological writings I. Edited by Klaus Nellen and Jiri Nemec. Introduction by Ludwig Landgrebe. 1990, ISBN 3-608-91462-5, 319 pp.
  • Volume IV: The movement of human existence. Phenomenological writings II Edited by Klaus Nellen, Jiri Nemec and Ilya Srubar. Introduction by Ilya Srubar 1991, ISBN 3-608-91463-3, 650 pp.
  • Volume V: Writings on Czech culture and history. Edited by Klaus Nellen, Petr Pithart Pojar and Miroslav. 1992, ISBN 3-608-91491-9, 371 pp.
  • Eugen Fink and Jan Patocka. Letters and documents, 1933-1977. edited by Michael Heitz and Bernhard Nessler. 1999
  • January Patocka, texts, documents, bibliography, edited by Ludger Hagedorn and Hans R. Sepp, Freiburg / Munich 1999 ISBN 3-4954-7962-7
  • January Patocka, from the appearance as such texts from the estate, edited by Helga Blaschek Cock and Karel Novotný. Freiburg 2000
  • Other ways in which modern study of European intellectual history from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Würzburg 2006 ISBN 3-8260-2846-5

Czech -language publications

  • Přirozený svět jako filosofický problem ( life-world as a philosophical problem ), Prague 1936
  • Aristotle, jeho předchůdci a dědicové ( Aristotle, his predecessors and heirs), Prague 1963
  • O smysl dneška (For the meaning of today), Prague 1969
  • Kacířské eseje o filosofii Dejin ( Heretical Essy on the Philosophy of History ), Prague, 1975 ( self-published )
  • Negativní Platonism (Negative Platonism ), Prague 1990
  • Platón. Přednášky z antické filosofie ( Plato. lectures on ancient philosophy ), Prague 1991
  • Tři study o Masarykovi (three studies of Masaryk ), Prague 1991
  • Evropa a doba poevropská ( Europe and by European Time ). Prague 1992
  • Úvod do fenomenologické filosofie ( Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy ), Prague 1993
  • Tělo, Společenství, jazyk, svět ( Body, Community, Language, World ). Lectures 1968-69. Prague 1995
  • Sebrané spisy 1-20 ( Collected Works 1-20). Oikumene, Prague (until 2010 are 15 bands appeared ).
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