One of the most important Central European philosophers of this century, Jan Patocka (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. Patocka, who was forced to retire prematurely from Charles University in Prague f[...]

Patocka, like few others before or since, combined what was best in Husserl and Heidegger, but at the same time found for himself a distinct, original philosophical voice. Both his originality and his synthesis of the two dominant strands of classical phenomenology are evident here, as Patocka pursu[...]

I detta arbete diskuteras hur begreppet "fenomen? behandlats och utvecklats inom den fenomenologiska filosofin hos Martin Heidegger, Jan Patocka och Eugen Fink. Tonvikten ligger på hur fenomenet enligt dem inte bara är framträdande utan också undandragande. Denna negativitet hos fenomenet själv[...]