Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World An Interpretation of Husserl and Heidegger

For those familiar with the philosophical traditions associated with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, the first inclination on encountering Jan Patočka is to view his work as a modification of their, more original, theses. To some extent this is justifiable, for the Czech philosopher is most def...

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Published inCaring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age p. 15
Main Author Edward F. Findlay
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published State University of New York Press 01.02.2012
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Summary:For those familiar with the philosophical traditions associated with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, the first inclination on encountering Jan Patočka is to view his work as a modification of their, more original, theses. To some extent this is justifiable, for the Czech philosopher is most definitely a student of Husserl and Heidegger, and his work is built on conceptualizations worked out by these two thinkers. Yet to conceive of Patočka as primarily a “Husserlian” or, alternately, a “Heideggerean” thinker is to miss the main thrust of his thought, the most original aspect of his philosophy. Patočka’s approach to philosophy
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