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The Selected Writings of Jan Pato č ka i Also available from Bloomsbury Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers , Costica Bradatan The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice , translated by Federico Testa and Matthew Sharpe Heraclitus , Martin Heidegger, translated by Julia Goesser Assaiante and S. Montgomery Ewegen A Philosophy of the Essay: Scepticism, Experience and Style , Erin Plunkett ii The Selected Writings of Jan Patoč k a Care for the Soul EDITED BY IVAN CHVATÍ K AND ERIN PLUNKETT Translated by Alex Zucker, with additional translations by Andrea Rehberg and David Charlston iii BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2022 © English translation: Alex Zucker, Andrea Rehberg and David Charlston, 2022 © Original Works: Jan Patoc ˇ ka Archive, Prague 2022 Alex Zucker, Andrea Rehberg and David Charlston have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Translators of this work. Ivan Chvatík (Jan Pato cˇ ka Archive at the Center for Theoretical Study, and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and Erin Plunkett have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Editors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. xiv constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design: Cover image © LONELY TREE Oil on panel 125 × 85cm 2018 Hervé Constant (artist) Private collection, Colette Levy, London UK All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-3910-7 PB: 978-1-3501-3909-1 ePDF: 978-1-3501-3911-4 eBook: 978-1-3501-3912-1 Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk To fi nd out more about our authors and books visit w ww.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our n ewsletters . iv Pato cˇ ka in 1968. Photo by Dagmar Hochov á . Copyright Jan Pato cˇ ka Archive. v Pato cˇ ka teaches an underground seminar in 1976, with Ivan Chvatí k (pictured) and other students. Photo by Jan Endr í s. Copyright Jan Pato cˇ ka Archive. Pato cˇ ka with Irena Michn ˇ á kov á and Karel Kosí k in 1976. Copyright Jan Pato c ˇ ka Archive. vi In Memoriam Ivan Milo š Havel (1938–2021) vii viii CONTENTS Foreword Graham Henderson xi Acknowledgments xiv Translator’s Note xv Timeline xvii Introduction E rin Plunkett 1 Care for the soul 2 The soul in the polis 5 The whole and the natural world 7 Phenomenology, Objectivity, and Technology 9 Asubjective Phenomenology 13 Pato cˇ ka’s aesthetic and literary criticism 16 Myth, Guilt, and Uncertainty 17 History and the movement of life 18 PART ONE Early Texts 27 1 A Few Remarks on the Concept of “World History” (1935) 27 2 The Idea of Education and its Relevance Today (1938) 39 PART TWO Care for the Soul 53 3 Limping Pilgrim Josef Cˇ apek (1950 – 1964) 55 4 On the Soul in Plato (1972) 75 5 Comenius and the Open Soul (1970) 93 PART THREE Phenomenology 105 6 The Natural World and Phenomenology (1967) 107 7 What is Phenomenology? (1975) 139 ix
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