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Europe and the Oblivion of the World. From Husserl to Patocka

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At the beginning of August 1934, while spending his holidays in the Black Forest, Husserl received an invitation from the Prague-based Cercle philosophique pour les recherches sur l’entendement humain to contribute to the International Philosophical Congress that was to be held a month later in the capital of Czechoslovakia with a paper addressing the question of ‘the present task of philosophy’. Husserl responded favourably to this request and submitted a paper on 30 August 1934. However, numerous typing mistakes as well as a certain dissatisfaction with regard to the content – ‘Das Ganze ist unfertig’ [the whole is unfinished], as he puts it in an letter from 13 September – led him to ask Patočka, who was one of the organizers of the conference, to send him back the paper in order to revisit it.1 Although he initially planned to send a revised version of his text back to Prague, the difficulties he encountered in providing a sufficient foundation for his insights resulted in an interminable reworking of the manuscript. The exploration of the paths that these reflections uncovered provided the source for the 1935 Vienna conference, which inaugurated the Krisis work. What at first glance seemed to be an occasional writing, a mere concession made to the topics of the day – the general theme of the Prague Congress was ‘The crisis of democracy’ – turned out to be for the old master of phenomenology a forceful impetus to take up once more the task of spelling out the goals, achievements, and inner architecture of transcendental phenomenology, this time considered in a historical perspective, as the final term of a teleological movement initiated at the dawn of Greek philosophy.

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hal-04015441 , version 1 (05-03-2023)

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Ovidiu Stanciu. Europe and the Oblivion of the World. From Husserl to Patocka. Darian Meacham; Francesco Tava. Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics, Rowman & Littlefield, pp.410-434, 2016, 978-1-78348-686-1. ⟨hal-04015441⟩
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