What is Consciousness a Negation of? Jan Patočka’s Contribution to the Existentialism Controversy
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology June 18, 2025 Jakub Čapek 1 citation
ABSTRACT In the 1940s, Sartre’s philosophy sparked what Merleau-Ponty called the “battle over existentialism”. This article focuses on Jan Patočka’s contribution to this controversy. In his philosophical anthropology in the second half of the 1940s, Patočka sees human existence as defined by the capacity to maintain a distance from what is pre-given (reality of the physical world, established...