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Heretical Essays is Patočka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patočka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. According to Patočka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patočka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation.
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Détails de la publication
Maison d'édition: Open Court
Lieu de publication: LaSalle, Ill.
Année: 1996
Pages: 200
ISBN (hardback): 0812693361
ISBN (paperback): 081269337X
Citation complète:
Patočka Jan, 1996, Heretical essays in the philosophy of history. J. Dodd (Ed.) (E. Kohák, Trans.). LaSalle, Ill., Open Court. (Original work published 1975)