The contributors to this volume shed light on the unique value of Patocka's asubjective phenomenology in the context of his entire oeuvre. Each original contribution highlights the importance of Patocka's historical engagement with phenomenology and modern thinking. Patocka's significance to phenomenology has largely gone unrecognised in the English- speaking world, a lacuna that this volume redresses.

Lubica Ucník, Anita Williams, Ivan ChvatíkJan Patocka's Project of an Asubjective Phenomenology, and the Movement of Human ExistencePart I: Jan PatockaJan PatockaHusserl's Subjectivism and the Call for an Asubjective PhenomenologyJan PatockaEpoche and Reduction: Some ObservationsPart II: Asubjective PhenomenologyIvan ChvatíkPatocka's Project of an Asubjective PhenomenologyMichael GubserJan Patocka's Transcendence to the WorldPart III: The Three Movements of Human ExistenceJosef MouralPhenomenology, History, and Responsibility for One's LifeInês Pereira RodriguesA World of Possibilities: The Cosmological World and the Movement of Existence in Jan PatockaÉmilie TardivelAutonomy and Phenomenology: Patocka's ApproachPart IV: Patockian Reflections on Modern SocietyCiaran SummertonThree Perspectives on Politics and History: Patocka, Hayek and French PositivismJakub HomolkaThe Problem of Meaning in the Rational (Super)Civilisation: Patocka's Interpretation of Modernity after World War IIRiccardo PaparussoLife, Technology, Christianity: Patocka's Sacrifice for Nothing and its Economic-Mythical RootsAnthony BackhousePatocka's Observations on the Meaning of Beauty in Ancient GreecePart V: Patocka on MeaningIvan ChvatíkPatocka's Philosophy of Meaning in Human Life and HistoryAnita WilliamsThe Meaning of the MathematicalLubica UcníkMovement and Human Existence: The Mysterium of MundanityNotes on ContributorsJan Patocka's Life and WorkContributorsIndex