Philosopher
Jan Patočka
Overview
Jan Patočka (Czech: [ˈpatot͡ʃka]; 1 June 1907 – 13 March 1977) was a Czech philosopher. Having studied at Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. At Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.
Patočka was a prolific writer and lecturer with a wide range of reference, contributing much to existential phenomenology as well as the interpretation of Czech culture and European culture in general. From his Czech collected works, some of the most notable have been translated into English and other major languages. These include the late works Plato and Europe (1973) and Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History (1975), in which Patočka developed a philosophy of history identifying the Socratic-Platonic theme of the care of the soul as the basis of "Europe".
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Philosophers who discussed Jan Patočka
- Tomáš Masaryk
- Martin Heidegger
- Jacques Derrida
- Edmund Husserl
- Milan Machovec
- Karel Kosík
- Martin Heidegger and Nazism
- Václav Bělohradský
Ideas Jan Patočka discusses
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Tomáš Masaryk
- John Amos Comenius
- Philosophy of history
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Metaphilosophy
- Metaphysics
- Aesthetics
- Plato
- Political philosophy
- Prague Spring
- Prague
- Socrates
- Roman Jakobson
- Aletheia
- Austria-Hungary
- University of Freiburg
- Pre-Socratic philosophy
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Continental philosophy
- Philosophical anthropology
- Martin Heidegger
Place in the tradition
Part of Czech philosophy.