Heretical essays in the philosophy of history

Author(s)

• Patočka, Jan
• Kohák, Erazim V.
• Dodd, James
• Ricœur, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Heretical essays in the philosophy of history

Jan Patočka ; translated by Erazim Kohák ; edited by James Dodd ; with Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French edition

Open Court, c1996

• : pbk

Other Title

Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-182) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Heretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation. This book includes a translation of the Preface to the French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.

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Details

• NCID: BB07318268
• ISBN:
  • 9780812693379
• LCCN: 96042179
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: cze
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 189 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D16.8
  • DC20 : 901
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : History -- Philosophy