“Between Continuity and Discontinuity.” On the Question of How to Approach Patočka’s Philosophy and Its Historical Transformations

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11212-024-09675-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11212-024-09675-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

“Between Continuity and Discontinuity.” On the Question of How to Approach Patočka’s Philosophy and Its Historical Transformations

Original language description

Jan Patočka’s philosophical development was varied. Over the course of fifty years of philosophizing, he gradually, and to varying degrees, developed close to a dozen systematic projects, whose ambition was, at least initially, to present what he called a “unified philosophy.” However, the dynamism with which he changed his philosophical plans and incessantly embarked on new projects invites the question of how to approach the various and often mutually “contradictory” transformations of his philosophical thinking, if neither the continuity and integrity of Patočka’s thought nor the essential specificity of any of these positions is to be lost. Through the notion of the “personal a priori” found in one of Jan Patočka’s early texts, and in a critical, “overcoming-preserving” reference to two antagonistic conceptions of Patočka’s philosophical development, the article attempts to sketch a solution to this general interpretative problem. In the context of the search for Patočka’s “basic position of seeing” as the integrating framework of his diverse philosophical attempts, it simultaneously reconstructs the early question about the meaning of philosophy in general, which Patočka developed in a series of texts from the 1930s, some of which are still available only in the Czech language.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies in East European Thought

ISSN

0925-9392

e-ISSN

1573-0948

Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

589-602

UT code for WoS article

001355243300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85209086178