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portada Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
430
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 14.0 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.39 kg.
ISBN13
9788024645377
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence

Aspen Brinton (Author) · Univ of Chicago Behalf of Karolinum Press · Paperback

Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence - Brinton, Aspen

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Synopsis "Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence"

Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he was a philosophical inspiration to Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Soviet regimes before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations of the secret police, his political involvement cut short by an untimely death. Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines his legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being's existential confrontation with unjust politics. Aspen Briton puts Patočka's ideas about dissidence, citizen mobilization, and civic responsibility in conversation with those of notable world historical figures like Mohandas Gandhi, expanding the current possibilities of comparative political theory. In adding a fresh voice to contemporary conversations on transcending injustice, Confronting Totalitarian Minds seeks to educate a wider audience about this philosopher's continued relevance to political dissidents across the world.

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