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  • The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka

    Care for the Soul

    by Jan Patocka ...
    Translated by Alex Zucker ...
    Jan Patocka'scontribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains rather unfamiliar with his work. In this new book of essential Patocka texts, of which the majority have been translated from the original Czech for the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology

    by Jan Patocka ...
    Translated by Erazim Kohak ...
    Patocka's celebrated Introduction, here made available in English for the first time, is not an introduction in the ordinary sense of the term. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology--intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Living in Problematicity

    by Jan Patocka ...
    Translated by Eric Manton ...
    Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patočka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writings assembled in Living in Problematicity examine the role of the philosopher in the world, how the world constrains us through ideology, and how freedom is possible through the recognition of our human ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Husserl

    German Perspectives

    by Rudolf Bernet, Christopher Erhard, Klaus Held, Ludwig Landgrebe, Dieter Lohmar, Verena Mayer, Ullrich Melle, Karl Mertens, Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Jan Patočka, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Karl Schuhmann, Elisabeth Ströker, Patrick Eldridge, Hayden Kee, Robin Litscher Wilkins ...
    Edmund Husserl, generally regarded as the founding figure of phenomenology, exerted an enormous influence on the course of twentieth and twenty-first century philosophy. This volume collects and translates essays written by important German-speaking commentators on Husserl, ranging from his contemporaries to scholars of today, to make available in English some of the best commentary on Husserl and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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    Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being

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