The finite subject and reflection in Jan Patočka

• Published in: Studies in East European thought Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 427 - 445
• Main Author: Barcaro, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Education; History; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Political Science; Primacy; Subjectivity; Time; Reduction; Reflection; Sum; Time; Epoché; World

How should we conceive of the relationship between finite subjectivity and reflection? And what implications does this have for the phenomenological method? This article addresses these questions by reconstructing the main pillars of Patočka’s theory of the subject. I present three of Patočka’s key...