Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age: Politics and Phenomenology in the Thought of Jan Patocka

CARING FOR THE SOUL IN A POSTMODERN AGE......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 9
2. “Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World”: An Interpretation of Husserl and Heidegger......Page 23
HUSSERL......Page 24
THE INFLUENCE OF HEIDEGGER......Page 40
A PHENOMENOLOGY OF MOVEMENT......Page 50
CONCLUSION......Page 56
3. Philosophy After the Death of Metaphysics: Patocka and Greek Thought......Page 59
PLATO AND EUROPE......Page 64
CARING FOR THE SOUL......Page 69
METAPHYSICS AND “NEGATIVE PLATONISM”......Page 76
THE IDEA, THE GOOD, AND THE TRUTH......Page 82
4. A Philosophy of History and a Theory of Politics......Page 91
THE BASIS OF HUMAN HISTORICITY......Page 94
A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY......Page 97
THE POLIS IN HISTORY......Page 107
TWO ELEMENTS OF HISTORICAL LIFE: FREEDOM AND PROBLEMATICITY......Page 109
PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND POLITICS......Page 115
EUROPE, SCIENCE, AND METAPHYSICS......Page 120
5. Politics and Ethics in the Twentieth Century......Page 129
PATOCKA AND POLITICS......Page 130
THE HERETICAL ESSAYS AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 141
THE SPIRITUAL PERSON AND THE POLIS......Page 154
ETHICS AND MORALITY......Page 159
6. Conclusion: Foundations and Philosophy, Politics and Postmodernism......Page 169
THE PROBLEM OF MEANING......Page 173
MEANING, POLITICS, AND CONFLICT......Page 179
CONCLUSION......Page 185
PERSPECTIVE......Page 186
Appendix: Patocka’s Reception in the English-Language Literature......Page 193
PATOCKA AS CONFLICTED HUMANIST......Page 194
PATOCKA AS POSTMODERN: ANTIFOUNDATIONALISM, THEOLOGY, AND LIBERALISM......Page 201
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 215
CHAPTER 2. “CONCRETE HUMANS IN THEIR CORPOREAL WORLD”......Page 217
CHAPTER 3. PHILOSOPHY AFTER THE DEATH OF METAPHYSICS......Page 225
CHAPTER 4. A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND A THEORY OF POLITICS......Page 230
CHAPTER 5. POLITICS AND ETHICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 234
CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION......Page 240
APPENDIX......Page 244
PATOCKA, JAN......Page 249
SECONDARY LITERATURE......Page 252
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H......Page 261
M......Page 262
N......Page 263
P......Page 264
S......Page 265
W......Page 266
X......Page 267