An Introduction to Patočka’s Phenomenology - AFS500166

• Title: An Introduction to Patočka’s Phenomenology
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2017
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=4873
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Martin Ritter, Ph.D.

Annotation

An introduction to Patočka’s phenomenology will offer, firstly, concise summaries of the main phases of Patočka’s thinking in order to provide an overview of main alterations of Patočka’s phenomenology. In the second part, lectures will systematically develop and concretise especially the concept of the movements of existence presenting it as the living core of Patočka’s late phenomenology. Next to the analysis of the body, the lectures will focus on the care for the soul, on the possibility of approaching the absolute and, finally, on the crisis of Europe.

Last update: RITTERMA (18.09.2016)

Course completion requirements

To receive credit students must: 

1) have no more than three absences,

2) actively engage in discussions,

3) submit an essay (2000-3000 words) on one of the topics presented in lectures.

Last update: RITTERMA (03.10.2016)

Literature

Secondary literature: 

 

R. Barbaras, Le mouvement de l'existence. Études sur la phénoménologie de Jan Patočka, Éditions de la Transparence, 2007

F. Karfík, Unendlichwerden durch die Endlichkeit, Würzburg 2008

E. Kohák, Jan Patočka. Philosophy and Selected Writings, Chicago 1989, pp. 1–135

K. Novotný, La genèse d’une hérésie. Monde, corps et histoire dans la pensée de Jan Patočka, Paris 2012 

Last update: RITTERMA (18.09.2016)