Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence - Aspen E. Brinton

The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka not only witnessed some of the most turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but shaped his philosophy in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he inspired Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Communist regime before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77._x000D_ _x000D_ He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations... Zobrazit více