Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. "Concrete Humans in Their Corporeal World": An Interpretation of Husserl and Heidegger Husserl The Influence of Heidegger A Phenomenology of Movement Conclusion 3. Philosophy After the Death of Metaphysics: Patocka and Greek Thought Plato and Europe Caring for the Soul Metaphysics and "Negative Platonism" The Idea, the Good, and the Truth 4. A Philosophy of History and a Theory of Politics The Basis of Human Historicity A Philosophy of History The Polis in History Two Elements of Historical Life: Freedom and Problematicity Philosophy of History and Politics Europe, Science, and Metaphysics 5. Politics and Ethics in the Twentieth Century Patocka and Politics The Heretical Essays and the Twentieth Century The Spiritual Person and the Polis Ethics and Morality 6. Conclusion: Foundations and Philosophy, Politics and Postmoderism The Problem of Meaning Meaning, Politics, and Conflict Conclusion Perspective Appendix: Patocka's Reception in the English-Language Literature Patocka as Conflicted Humanist Patocka as Postmodern: Antifoundationalism, Theology, and Liberalism Notes Works Cited Index
Edward F. Findlay received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Louisiana State University.
"...Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age ... is the first introduction to Patocuka's work written in English. As such it is to be welcomed." - Radical Philosophy "A superb book. Findlay's treatment makes an excellent case to give Patocuka's thought a serious reading in the present day, given its unusual station as lying both in between various positions generally taken to be mutually opposed to each other, and in its earnest effort to integrate the best of each and move beyond the limits of both. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle get unified in terms of the fundamental inspiration of European philosophy-'care of the soul'-while in the context of the social and political (not to mention philosophical) founderings that have characterized the twentieth century." - Ronald Bruzina, translator of Sixth Cartesian Meditation: The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method by Eugen Fink
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