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Jan Patočka
Heretical essays in the philosophy of history
Jan Patočka
Edited by James Dodd
Translated by Erazim Kohák
Heretical Essays is Patočka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patočka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. According to Patočka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patočka 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.
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Reflections on prehistory
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27-51
The beginning of history
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79-93
89-131
Does history have a meaning?
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95-118
119-137
139-154
Author's glosses to the "Heretical essays"
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