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Jan Patočka was a Czechoslovak pedagogue, writer, university teacher, and translator. He worked in philosophy, phenomenology, and the history of philosophy, and also engaged in translation. His professional career included teaching at Charles University and working in Brno. He was educated at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and Jan Neruda Grammar School.
Patočka was influenced by Edmund Husserl and studied under Martin Heidegger. He was associated with the phenomenology movement and was a member of Charter 77. He spoke and wrote in German and Czech. Among his notable works are *La crise du sens*, *Symbol země u K.H. Máchy*, *Essais hérétiques sur la philosophie de l'histoire*, and *Česká vzdělanost v Evropě*.
Born in Turnov in 1907, Patočka died in Prague in 1977 from a cerebral hemorrhage, which is classified as natural causes. He is buried at Břevnov cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1977
- Works
- 71
Top works
- La crise du sens
- Symbol země u K.H. Máchy
- Essais hérétiques sur la philosophie de l'histoire
- Jan Patočka v jubilejním roce 2017
- Česká vzdělanost v Evropě
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1907-06-01 ) 1 June 1907, Turnov , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 13 March 1977 (1977-03-13) (aged 69), Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy , Phenomenology , "Asubjective phenomenology" / Existential phenomenology , "Negative Platonism "
- Notable students
- Bělohradský Halík Hejdánek Palouš Sokol
- Main interests
- Aesthetics anthropology ethics history metaphysics philosophy politics spirituality
- Notable works
- Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History (1975) Plato and Europe (1973) Body, Community, Language, World (1969) The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem (1936)
- Notable ideas
- Care of the soul , post-European era, natural world , three movements of human existence
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Turnov
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Educated at
- Jan Neruda Grammar School
- Employer
- Charles University
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Student of
- Martin Heidegger
- Field of work
- pedagogy
- Movement
- phenomenology
- Image
- Patocka 1971.jpg
- Work location
- Brno
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- place of burial
- Břevnov cemetery
- Commons category
- Jan Patočka
- date of birth
- 1907-06-01
- date of death
- 1977-03-13
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- manner of death
- natural causes
- influenced by
- Edmund Husserl
- member of
- Charter 77
- name in native language
- Jan Patočka
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Patočka ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈpatot͡ʃka]; 1 June 1907 – 13 March 1977) was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.
Patočka was a prolific writer and lecturer with a wide range of reference, contributing much to existential phenomenology as well as the interpretation of Czech culture and European culture in general. From his Czech collected works, some of the most notable have been translated to English and other major languages. These include the late works Plato and Europe (1973) and Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History (1975), in which Patočka developed a philosophy of history identifying the Socratic-Platonic theme of the care of the soul as the basis of "Europe".
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