Title: Body, community, language, world
First published: 1998
Description: "Body, Community, Language, World, here made available in English for the first time is Patocka's presentation of phenomenology as a living tradition - as a philosophical heritage that requires to be rethought and redirected in light of possibilities that it has itself uncovered." "Jan Patocka lived for most of his adult life in Communist Czechoslovakia where he was at times banned from publishing or teaching. Mentor of Vaclav Havel, Patocka defied the regime as one of the spokespersons for Charta 77, and died in 1977, following two months of police interrogation."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Phenomenology, Body, Human (Philosophy), Human body (philosophy)
LC classification: B4805.P383 T3713 1998