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ONLINE

[Praha] : Karolinum, 2021

1 online zdroj (300 stran)

ISBN 978-80-246-4519-3 (online ; pdf)

ISBN 978-80-246-4537-7 (print)

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.He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations of the secret police. Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines his legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being’s existential confrontation with unjust politics. Expanding the current possibilities of comparative political theory, the author puts Patocka’s ideas about dissidence, citizen mobilization, and civic responsibility into conversation with notable world historical figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and other contemporary activists. In adding a fresh voice to contemporary conversations on transcending injustice, Confronting Totalitarian Minds seeks to educate a wider audience about this philosopher’s continued relevance to political dissidents across the world..

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Acknowledgments // Preface // Introduction // Chapter One // Living in Truth: in Conversation with Václav Havel // Chapter Two // Care of the Soul: in Conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer // Chapter Three // Confrontation as Polemos: in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi // Chapter Four // Solidarity of the Shaken: in Conversation with Atomic Activism // Chapter Five // Shipwrecked Existence: in Conversation with Environmental Activism // Epilogue: Political Distress and Underground Books // Bibliography // Index