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Year: 2013

Pages: 13-28

Series: Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

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Eddo Evink, "Surrender and subjectivity", Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 5 (1), 2013, pp. 13-28.

Abstract

In Jan Patočka’s phenomenology of intersubjectivity one can find clear influences of Merleau-Ponty. By both philosophers intersubjectivity is seen as a form of reversibility that has a primacy above personal subjectivity. But Patočka adds to this idea of reversibility the notion of surrender or dedication. In this article it is demonstrated how Patočka’s conception on surrender is developed in his idea of the three movements of human existence. Moreover, the understanding of intersubjectivity through surrender is presented as an important step towards an answer to several points of critique on Merleau-Ponty’s views on intersubjectivity, that were brought to the fore by Claude Lefort. Finally, in this article several aspects of surrender are distinguished in order to give more insight in the functioning and effects of the third movement of human life.

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Publication details

Year: 2013

Pages: 13-28

Series: Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

Full citation:

Eddo Evink, "Surrender and subjectivity", Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 5 (1), 2013, pp. 13-28.