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Subject: [Info_Culture] Studia Phaenomenologica VII (2007) : JAN PATOCKA
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From: "Cristian Ciocan" <cristian.ciocan la phenomenology.ro>
Date: Tue, May 1, 2007 03:42
To: "'Cristian Ciocan'" <cristian.ciocan la phenomenology.ro>
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Stimati colegi,
Am placerea de a va semnala cea mai recenta aparitie a revistei Studia
Phaenomenologica (http://www.studia-phaenomenologica.com/)
Studia Phaenomenologica VII (2007): JAN PATOCKA AND THE EUROPEAN HERITAGE,
Humanitas, 2007 (ISSN: 1582-5647, ISBN 978-973-50-1648-7, 568 p.)
Cu cele mai bune ganduri,
Cristian Ciocan
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Studia Phaenomenologica VII (2007) : JAN PATOCKA AND THE EUROPEAN HERITAGE
Volume edited in collaboration with Jan Patocka Archive in Prague as the
Patocka centenary commemorative volume
Ivan
<http://www.studia-phaenomenologica.com/introduction.php?page=introduction7>
ChvatÃk, Introduction: Jan PatoÄka and the European Heritage
JAN PATOČKA — NEW TRANSLATIONS
Jan PatoÄka, Das Innere und die Welt (aus dem Tschechischen übersetzt
von Sandra Lehmann, Einführung von Ana Cecilia Santos)
Abstract: Presented here is the German translation of Jan Patočka’s
fragment Nitro a svět (The Inner and the World) which was written in the
1940s and belongs to the so called „Strahov Papers“. The fragment
reflects Patočka’s early attempts towards a thinking of subjectivity
and the world. Thereby Patočka’s approach is phenomenological, but also
integrates motives of German Idealism. The critical impact of the fragment
lies in its orientation against the scientific biologism of its times.
Jan PatoÄka, Des deux manières de concevoir le sens de la philosophie
(traduit du tcheque par Erika Abrams)
Abstract: The essay “On the Two Conceptions of the Meaning of
Philosophy”, published in 1936, links up with other early writings such
as “Remarks on the Wordly and Other-Wordly Stance of Philosophy”
(1934) reflecting Patoμka’s initial approach to the question of
philosophers’ moral commitment. He distinguishes here an
“autocentric” (Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel) and a “hetero-” or
“sociocentric” (Plato, Enlightenment philosophers, Comte, Nietzsche)
conception of the meaning of philosophy, characterizes its possible
influence on human life as either “apperceptive” or “magical” and
concludes on a vision of “autonomous life” as “the divinity
struggling with its intrinsic peril” which heralds later writings on
freedom and sacrifice.
Jan PatoÄŤka, Ideology and Life in the Idea (translated from the Czech by
Eric Manton)
Abstract: Patočka’s text from 1946, right after World War II and before
the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, analyzes the important
historical events he was living through from a philosophical perspective.
PatoÄŤka describes the crisis in Enlightenment-based social humanism,
which even though having won the war, was left battered and distrusted for
not preventing the disaster. With this branch of social humanism being
discredited, people turned towards its Eastern manifestation, i.e.,
Socialism or Communism. PatoÄŤka distinguishes the various aspects of
Socialism that exist undifferentiated within the term: the concept of Man,
ideology, and the Idea. The liberation of the Idea is twisted when
combined with a material concept of Man as just one force among other
forces, which the ideology then uses and abuses for an external aim.
DOCUMENTS
Jan PatoÄŤka, Briefe an Krzysztof Michalski
Abstract: We reproduce here forty previously unpublished letters sent by
Jan PatoÄŤka to the Polish philosopher Krzysztof Michalski between 1973
and 1976. The letters to Michalski reveal his key role in motivating
PatoÄŤka to formulate his ideas concerning the philosophy of history and
present them first in a series of underground lectures in Prague and
finally on paper in his last samizdat book, the Heretical Essays on the
Philosophy of History.
Ivan ChvatÃk, Geschichte und Vorgeschichte des Prager Jan PatoÄka-Archivs
Abstract: This paper presents a short biography of Jan PatoÄŤka, as well
as biographical data of the author in connection to the life and work of
Jan Patočka. The paper describes Patočka’s academic activity at
Charles University between 1968 and 1972, how he continued by giving
private underground seminars in the dark years of 1972 to 1976, and how
his engagement culminated in the dissident movement Charter 77. The author
explains how the unofficial underground PatoÄŤka Archive was established
on the very day of Patočka’s death, even before the terrible events
around his funeral. Before the official PatoÄŤka Archive was founded on
the 1st of January, 1990, many volumes of his works were edited secretly
during the period of 1977 to 1989. This made it possible to continue
successfully publishing the series of the Complete Works of Jan PatoÄŤka
after 1990.
ARTICLES
†Paul Ricoeur, Jan Patočka: De la philosophie du monde naturel a la
philosophie de l’histoire
Abstract: We reproduce here the text of a lecture held by Paul Ricoeur at
Naples in 1997. Ricoeur sees in Patočka’s work an elliptical movement
with two foci: the phenomenology of the natural world and the question of
the meaning of history. Ricoeur evidences the new features of Patočka’s
a-subjective phenomenology compared to Husserl’s transcendental idealism
and Heidegger’s existential analytics. The transition from the
phenomenology of the natural world to the problematic of history suggests
in any case a substantial dialectical thread that starts from the
phenomenology of the movement of life, weaves through the problematic and
tragic character of history and ends in the idea of the solidarity of the
shaken.
Domenico Jervolino, Ricoeur lecteur de PatoÄŤka
Abstract: In this essay, Domenico Jervolino summarizes twenty years of
Ricoeur’s reading of Patočka’s work, up to the Neapolitan conference
of 1997. Nowhere is Ricoeur closer to Patočka’s a-subjective
phenomenology. Both thinkers belong, together with authors like
Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, to a third phase of the phenomenological
movement, marked by the search for a new approach to the relation between
human beings and world, beyond Husserl and Heidegger. In the search for
this approach, PatoÄŤka strongly underlines the relation between body,
temporality and sociality. Central to this new encounter of PatoÄŤka and
Ricoeur is the discovery of an idea of inter-human community based on a
a-subjective conception of existence.
Françoise Dastur, Réflexions sur la «phénoménologie de l’histoire»
de PatoÄŤka
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the analysis of some important points
of Patočka’s Heretical Essays on the Philosophy of History in order to
question his major thesis of the common origin of philosophy, politics and
history shared by Hannah Arendt and based on Husserl’s and Heidegger’s
phenomenological conception of the Greek beginning. It tries to show the
complexity of Patočka’s conception of Europe, which on one side can be
understood as falling into Eurocentrism, but on the other side brings to
light the dark face of modern European nihilism and planetary domination
and tries to find a remedy for it by appealing to a philosophical
conversion leading to the recognition of the diversity of human culture.
Renaud Barbaras, L’unité originaire de la perception et du langage chez
Jan PatoÄŤka
Abstract: This article explores some indications in the texts of PatoÄŤka
that point towards a concept of language which no longer takes it to be a
derived layer of an original perceptive basis: he disassociates intuition
from origin, and establishes a co-origin of language and perception. It is
this co-origin whose meaning and limits this article seeks to determine.
James Mensch, The a priori of the Visible: PatoÄŤka and Merleau-Ponty
Abstract: Jan PatoÄŤka and Maurice Merleau-Ponty attempted to get beyond
Husserl by focusing on manifestation or visibility as such. Yet, the
results these philosophers come to are very different — particularly
with regard to the a priori of the visible. Are there, as PatoÄŤka
believed, aspects of being that can be grasped in their entirety, the
aspects, namely, that involve its “self-showing”? Or must we say, with
Merleau-Ponty, that being can only show itself in finite perspectives that
can never be summed to a whole? At stake in their attempts to speak of
appearing as appearing is, I propose to show, nothing less than the
question of the finitude of being.
Lorenzo Altieri, A meme les «choses memes»: La jonction de sentir et
mouvement dans la phénoménologie de Jan PatoÄka
Abstract: In this paper I would like to reconstruct Patočka’s effort to
give a faithful account of the phenomena, without betraying these
phenomena with an objectivistic theory of perception. Only by remaining
close to the things themselves will we be able to understand them as an
appeal, as a call, while understanding ourselves as a response to this
call. On the basis of this “ontological rehabilitation of the
sensible”, which reveals Patočka’s affinity with Merleau-Ponty as
much as his departure from Husserl, I will criticize the idealism of
Husserlian phenomenology and reconsider the a priori of correlation in a
different fashion. World and subject will then find a different
articulation, grounded in the ontological couple of movement and feeling.
The analysis will consist of three parts: in the first part I will
introduce the problematic of the opposition between phenomenological and
physical space; the second part will deal with the notion of movement; the
third part will concentrate on Patočka’s new account of subjectivity,
the a-subjective cogito, arising precisely from the fundamental coupling
of kinesis and pathos. Embodiment, qua original phenomenon, will be
constantly present in the background of this analysis.
Ana Cecilia Santos, Die Lehre des Erscheinens bei Jan PatoÄŤka: Drei Probleme
Abstract: In this article the author attempts to establish whether we can
find a “theory of appearance” in the philosophy of Jan Patočka. The
“appearance” for Patočka is basically composed of two elements. First
there is a “primeval movement” which accounts for an infinite
possibility of phenomena. The second element is the relation of this
movement with an “addressee”, the subjectivity. If we begin to analyse
the unity of these two elements we fundamentally come across three
problems: what is it that appears, when appearance presupposes a certain
totality of appearance; how does this total appearance come forth; and,
finally, is this whole “structure of appearance” taken as a free
movement, kept once and for all within the boundaries of phenomenology,
which is founded on a precise and positive term of “appearance” — or
do we have to stipulate a special “experience” as the starting point
of a phenomenology, which accepts the abyssal impossibility to control its
frame?
Alessandra Pantano, Vers les moments de l’apparaître
Abstract: The main theme of this article is the phenomenality. Jan
Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology distinguishes itself by the
description of the plan of phenomenality, where beings can appear and that
is independent from everything which appears in it. Only by an
universalization of the phenomenological epoché, it is possible to turn
our eyes towards the phenomenality itself and to understand its
independence. To put the theme of the world and the consciousness between
brackets means to discover the structure of the phenomenality, which is
constituted by what appears, to which something appears and the way of
appearance. The world is the transcendental field of appearance.
Everything appears in the world. It is the whole, always given and opened
to the human being. The subjectivity is a moment of phenomenality that
presupposes the relation with the world. It has a role that makes it an
“existence”. It is that to which something appears. Finally the way of
appearance: the characters of the phenomenality are “objective
mediators”. Mediators because they show the strings that build up the
field of appearance, objective because wordly. What they show, even if in
the darkness of the absence, is the relation with the world.
Darian Meacham, The Body at the Front: Corporeity and Community in Jan
Patočka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
Abstract: This paper investigates the relation in Patočka’s thought
between the concepts of the “front” and the “solidarity of the
shaken”, which we find in the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of
History, particularly the sixth essay, “Wars of the Twentieth Century
and The Twentieth Century as War”, and the phenomenological analysis of
corporeity that we find in Patočka’s work from the late sixties,
namely, “The Natural World and Phenomenology” (1967). We argue for a
reading of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken” that
emphasizes the importance of the body and intercorporeity. Based on this
we argue for an interpretation of Patočka’s “absolute” as life’s
transcendence of itself.
Peter Trawny, Die Moderne als Weltkrieg: Der Krieg bei Heidegger und PatoÄŤka
Abstract: In the article “The Modern Age as World War” Heidegger’s
and Patočka’s considerations of the First and the Second World War are
interpreted as a reflection on the modern age. The historical background
of this reflection goes back through an important influence of Ernst
Jünger to Heraclitus’ thought of an all-ruling polemos, which brings
forth the close affinity between Heidegger and PatoÄŤka. Here it is
unavoidable to pay heed to the question, whether war that is understood on
the basis of the Heraclitean polemos is a historical (geschichtliches)
event or not. Besides this, Heidegger’s and Patočka’s philosophical
approaches to the world war are set back in the context of their thoughts,
which we can find by Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, or Clausewitz. In the end, we
argue that Heidegger’s and Patočka’s thinking of war is a
contribution to the almost refused self-knowledge of the modern age
itself.
Marc Crépon, La guerre continue: Note sur le sens du monde et la pensée
de la mort
Abstract: “The Continuous War: note on the sense of the world and the
thought of death” is a free commentary on the last chapter of Heretical
Essays, “Wars of the Twentieth Century”. It takes as a guiding thread
a reflection on the reasons for which, as Patočka suggests, “even in
peace, war continues”. It finds these reasons both in the way in which
we are bound to the fear of death, and in the sense of the world
determined by that bind. It poses the question as to the extent to which
this calls for another meaning of the world.
Lubica UÄnÃk, PatoÄka on Techno-Science and Responsibility
Abstract: Starting from Patočka’s understanding of history as a
reflective confrontation with the “shaken present”, I will examine his
understanding of human responsibility. For PatoÄŤka, human responsibility
is impossible to think if the basis of our investigation is couched in the
formalised scientific explanation. To think about human responsibility is
to recognise that our lives are not something in the world, unchanging and
open to investigation by formalised knowledge as a tree or rocks are. We
must be responsible for the way we live. In that sense, science is
incapable to account for the meaning of life. However, this does not mean
that to speak of the meaning of life is meaningless. The life one leads is
an achievement. What kind of an achievement it is depends on the way we
understand the world and our place in it, who we want to be.
Emilie Tardivel, La Subjectivité dissidente: Étude sur PatoÄka
Abstract: PatoÄŤka has never developed the political and historical
concept of dissidence. But trying to sketch its phenomenological
foundation in the writings of the Czech philosopher, who experienced human
liberty as an act of dissidence, could be an original way in qualifying
his alternative idea of the modern subjectivity in phenomenology: between
finitude and autonomy. The first part of the article presents the radical
criticism aimed by PatoÄŤka to the transcendental subjectivism of Husserl,
and thinks the requirement of a split between autofoundation and autonomy.
Then, it is analysed the articulation between the movement of life and the
movement of existence, in which lies the very idea of dissidence. In a
third and final part, one shows to what extent the dissident subjectivity
fully reveals itself in the political life.
Eric Manton, PatoÄŤka on Ideology and the Politics of Human Freedom
Abstract: This essay examines Patočka’s reflections on the ideological
battles in the middle of the 20th century and the nature of ideology as
such. Drawing on Patočka’s texts from around the time of the Second
World War and the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia, the essay
describes Patočka’s analysis of the main philosophical schools of the
age, how they conceive of Man, and how they seek to use Man for their own
purposes. The essay shows how this external materialization of Man
dehumanizes and thus abuses. Only an idea respecting human freedom will do
justice to the human experience. Lastly the author reflects on whether
Patočka’s analysis of the human situation 60 years ago under various
types of totalitarianism is still relevant today.
Kwok-Ying Lau, Jan PatoÄŤka: Critical Consciousness and Non-Eurocentric
Philosopher of the Phenomenological Movement
Abstract: By his critical reflections on the crisis of modern
civilization, Jan PatoÄŤka, phenomenologist of the Other Europe,
incarnates the critical consciousness of the phenomenological movement. He
was in fact one of the first European philosophers to have emphasized the
necessity of abandoning the hitherto Eurocentric propositions of solution
to the crisis when he explicitly raised the problems of a “Post-European
humanity”. In advocating an understanding of the history of European
humanity different from those of Husserl and Heidegger, PatoÄŤka directs
his philosophical reflections back to sketch a more profound phenomenology
of the natural world insufficiently thematized in Husserl and absent in
Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit. By virtue of its emphasis on the structural
characteristics of movement, of praxis, and of the disclosure of the
abyssal nature of human existence and of the original nothingness as the
(non-)foundation of the phenomenal world, Patočka’s phenomenology of
the natural world constitutes an opening towards the reception of Others
and other cultures, in particular that of Chinese Taoist philosophy.
Ivan Blecha, Nietzsche in der tschechischen Phänomenologie. PatoÄka und
die Frage nach dem Sinn
Abstract: This paper attempts to compare the positions of Jan PatoÄŤka and
Pavel Kouba concerning Friedrich Nietzsche and thus to show the role of
his philosophy in the Czech phenomenology. The difference between PatoÄŤka
and Kouba is that PatoÄŤka (in a similar way as Heidegger) understands
Nietzsche still as a representative of traditional metaphysics (although
brought to the utmost frontier), whereas Kouba succeeds to incorporate
Nietzsche in the corpus of phenomenological thought and adopt his basic
ideas for the specific understanding of the world and of the position of
Man in the world. In Kouba’s concept, Nietzsche is not just a figure
from the history of philosophy, but an interesting focus around which
phenomenological self-reflection can gravitate.
TRANSLATING BEITRÄGE INTO ENGLISH: A DEBATE
Frank Schalow, Locating the Place of Translation
Abstract: This paper argues that Theodore Kisiel, in his article published
in Studia Phćnomenologica, vol. 5 (2005), pp. 277-285, completely
overlooks the “hermeneutic principles” involved in translating
philosophical texts when he arbitrarily denounces Parvis Emad’s and
Kenneth Maly’s translation of Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis).
By locating the distinctive place that translation occupies, this paper
argues that the kind of “neologisms” which Emad and Maly employ are
not only acceptable, but necessary, insofar as the translation of such an
extraordinary work as the Beiträge tests the limits of language where the
word emerges from silence.
Thomas Kalary, Some Unaddressed Hermeneutic Issues in Kisiel’s “Review
and Overview of Recent Heidegger Translations”
Abstract: In his appraisal of the English translation of the Beiträge by
Emad and Maly, Kisiel has not addressed some key issues concerning the
translation of this seminal work of being-historical thinking. Emad and
Maly have in their “Translators’ Foreword” highlighted a number of
hermeneutic issues and challenges which had to be addressed while
translating this work. If Kisiel were to be really reviewing the quality
of this translation, he would have had to address first the question
whether those issues highlighted by the translators are real issues that
are to be considered by any translator. If they are real issues and if
Kisiel is unhappy with the way the translators have dealt with them, he
should have proposed better alternatives, instead of summarily and
contemptuously dismissing the “Translator’s Foreword” itself.
Literary criticism is surely an invitation to present another point of
view, but never a means for expressing contempt.
Theodore Kisiel, In Response to my Overwrought Critics
Abstract: This response defends the relevance and indeed the necessity of
the “grassroots archival perspective” in exposing the errors of
transcription, omission, dating, etc. in the “German originals”,
recording the erratic history of the Heidegger-Gesamtausgabe and its
largely posthumous editorial principles, and tracing the genealogy and
development of Heidegger’s shifting conceptual constellations. Further
suggestions are made toward improving the readability of the forthcoming
new English translation of the Beiträge. A thoroughgoing grammatology of
be-ing is offered as a more adequate “alternative” to the verbally
superficial framework propounded by the Translators’ Foreword of the
Contributions.
BOOK REVIEWS
Rolf Kühn, Innere Gewißheit und lebendiges Selbst. Grundzüge der
Lebens-phänomenologie (Gabrielle Dufour-Kowalska); John Wrae Stanley, Die
gebrochene Tradition. Zur Genese der philosophischen Hermeneutik
Hans-Georg Gadamers (Radegundis Stolze); Gisbert Hoffmann, Heideggers
Phänomenologie. Bewusstsein — Reflexion — Selbst (Ich) und Zeit im
Frühwerk (Antonio Cimino); Dean Komel (Hg.), Kunst und Sein. Beiträge
zur Phänomenologischen Ästhetik und Aletheiologie (Mădălina Diaconu)
Dr. Cristian CIOCAN
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