Jan Patočka

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Jan Patočka


Born
in Turnov, Czech Republic
July 01, 1907

Died
March 13, 1977

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Influences


Jan Patočka (June 1, 1907, Turnov, Bohemia - March 13, 1977, Prague) is considered one of the most important contributors to Czech philosophical phenomenology, as well as one of the most influential central European philosophers of the 20th century. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl, who is considered the founder of phenomenology, and Martin Heidegger. During his studies in Freiburg he was also tutored by Eugen Fink, a relation which eventually turned into a lifelong philosophical friendship.

His works mainly dealt with the problem of the original, given world (Lebenswelt), its structure and the human position in it. He tried to develop this basically Husserlian concept unde
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“The point of history is not what can be uprooted or shaken, but rather the openness to the shaking.”
Jan Patočka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

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