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Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

Contributors:

By (Author) James Dodd
By (author) Jan Patocka

ISBN:

9780812693379

Publisher:

Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

Imprint:

Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

Publication Date:

11th February 1999

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

History: theory and methods
Literary essays

Dewey:

901

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

200

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 228mm

Weight:

382g

Description

Heretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger.
According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation.
This book includes a translation of the Preface to the French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.

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