An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology

An introduction to Husserl's philosophy written by one of his former students, himself an influential philosopher of the 20th century.

About the author

Jan Patocka is now considered to have been one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a student of both Husserl and Heidegger. He lived most of his adult life in Communist Czechoslovakia, where he was at times banned from publishing his work and from holding academic positions. Having written his Heretical Essays, Patocka defied the Communist regime as one of the spokespersons associated with Charta 77. He died in 1977, following two months of police interrogation.

Summary

Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology--intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality, the subject-body; the concrete a priori, and transcendental subjectivity. But rather than attempting to give a tour of Husserl's workshop, Patocka is himself hard at work on Husserl's problems.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Patocka
• Assisted by: James Dodd (Editor), Erazim Kohak (Translation)
• Publisher: Open Court
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2018
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day
• EAN: 9780812699807
• ISBN: 978-0-8126-9980-7
• Pages: 218
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 22.6 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 316 g
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology; PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers