Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings

by Erazim V. Kohák

Book Overview

One of the most important Central European philosophers of this century, Jan Patocka (1907-77) was a student and heir of Masaryk, Husserl, and Heidegger as well as a philosopher and historian of ideas in his own right. Patocka, who was forced to retire prematurely from Charles University in Prague for his political convictions, died of a brain hemorrhage while under Czech police interrogation for having signed the human rights manifesto Charta 77...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226450023
• ISBN13: 9780226450025
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"