Ivan Chvatík
5 Publications
The natural world as a philosophical problem
Jan Patočka
Northwestern University Press - Evanston, IL
2016
The first text to critically discuss Edmund Husserl’s concept of the "life-world," The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem reflects Jan Patocka's youthful conversations with the founder of phenomenology and two of his closest disciples, Eugen Fink and Ludwig Landgrebe. Now available in English for the first time, this translation includes an introduction by Landgrebe and two self-critical afterwords added by Patocka in the 1970s.
The phenomenological critique of mathematisation and the question of responsibility
L'ubica Učník, Ivan Chvatík, Anita Williams (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2015
Jan Patočka and the heritage of phenomenology
Erika Abrams, Ivan Chvatík (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2011
Whereas for the wider public Jan Patočka is known mainly through the circumstances of his death in Prague, on March 13, 1977, after long interrogations by the Communist secret police, as a defender of human and civic rights in Czechoslovakia and one of the first spokespersons of the Charter 77 movement, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and inspiring thinker, who elaborated in an original way the great wellsprings and impulses of European thought – mainly Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's philosophy of existence. Patočka also reflected on the future of humanity in a globalized world and laid the foundations of an original philosophy of history.
5 Publications