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One of the most important Central European philosophers of this century, Jan Patočka (1907-77) was a student and heir of Masaryk, Husserl, and Heidegger as well as a philosopher and historian of ideas in his own right. Patočka, who was forced to retire prematurely from Charles University in Prague for his political convictions, died of a brain hemorrhage while under Czech police interrogation for having signed the human rights manifesto Charta 77. Although many of his works are available in French and German, in this volume Erazim Kohák has translated Patočka's central philosophical texts…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1989University of Chicago Press · 386 pages · 9780226450018
PhilosophyPhilosophersPhenomenologyPatočka, jan , 1907-1977B4805.p384 k64 1989199/.437 b