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A comprehensive exposition and analysis of Jan Patöka's political philosophy, in particular his idea of Europe and concept of 'post-Europe', and its continuing relevance to philosophy and contemporary politics.
List of contents
Editors' Introduction / Acknowledgements / Part I: Intellectuals and Opposition
1. Translators' Preface / 2. Intellectuals and Opposition, Jan Patöka / 3. Appendix / Part II: Dissidence and Political Commitment / 4. Jan Patöka and the Possibility of a Spiritual Politics, Ivan Chvatík / 5. Resisting Fear: On Dissent and the Solidarity of the Shaken in Contemporary European and Global Society, Jiri P¿íbá¿ / 6. The Soul as Site of Dissidence, Simona Forti / Part III: Political Phenomenology / 7. Polemos in Jan Patöka's Political Thought, James Dodd / 8. Supercivilisation and Biologism, Darian Meacham / 9. Caring for the Asubjective Soul, James Mensch / Part IV: Philosophy of History / 10. He Who Saw the Deep: The Epic of Gilgamesh in Patöka's Philosophy of History, Nicolas De Warren / 11. The Dark Night of the Care for the Soul - Politics and Despair in Jan Patöka's Sixth Heretical Essay, Daniel Leufer / 12. The Heresy of History: Patöka's Reflections on Marx and Marxism, Francesco Tava / 13. The End of History and After: Rethinking Kojève and Patöka on the Idea of Post-History, Riccardo Paparusso / Part V: Rethinking the Community / 14. On the Significance of the Ancient Greek Polis for Patöka and Castoriadis: Philosophy, Politics, History, Suzi Adams / 15. Patöka's Radical and Agonistic Politics, Tamara Caraus / 16. Patöka's Figures of Political Community, Marion Bernard / 17. This is a Mathematical Certainty: Patoc¿ka and the Neoliberal Ideology, ¿ubica U¿ník / Part VI: Europe and Post-Europe / 18. Europe, Post-Europe and Eurocentrism, Karel Novotný / 19. Europe and the Oblivion of the World: From Husserl to Patöka, Ovidiu Stanciu / 20. Europe's Twentieth Century: History of Wars and War as History, Ludger Hagedorn / Bibliography / Index
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Edited by Francesco Tava and Darian Meacham
Summary
A comprehensive exposition and analysis of Jan Patocka's political philosophy, in particular his idea of Europe and concept of 'post-Europe', and its continuing relevance to philosophy and contemporary politics.
