The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul

Dedication
Contents
Foreword Graham Henderson
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Timeline
Introduction • Erin Plunkett
Part One: Early Texts
	1 A Few Remarks on the Concept of “World History” (1935)
	2 The Idea of Education and its Relevance Today (1938)
Part Two: Care for the Soul
	3 Limping Pilgrim Josef Čapek (1950 – 1964)
	4 On the Soul in Plato (1972)
	5 Comenius and the Open Soul (1970)
Part Three: Phenomenology
	6 The Natural World and Phenomenology (1967)
	7 What is Phenomenology? (1975)
Part Four: Arts and Culture
	8 Time, Myth, Faith (1952)
	9 Art and Time (1966)
	10 Time, Eternity, and Temporality in the Work of Karel Hynek Mácha (1967)
	11 On the Principle of Scientific Conscience (1968)
	12 The Writer’s Concern (Toward a Philosophy of Literature) (1969)
	13 Ivanov (1970)
	14 The Truth of Myth in Sophocles’ Theban Plays (1971)
	15 On Faust: The Myth of the Pact with the Devil—Observation on the Variants of the Faust Legend (1973)
Part Five: Philosophy of History
	16 The Spiritual Foundations of Life in Our Time (1970)
	17 The Dangers of Technicization in Science according to E. Husserl, and the Essence of Technology as Danger according to M. Heidegger (Varna Lecture, 1973)
	18 The Spiritual Person and the Intellectual (1975)
	19 An Outline of History (1976)
Postscript: Philosophy, Fate, and Sacrifice • Luděk Sekyra
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index