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The Phenomenology of Afterlife
The essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” was left unfinished by Patočka and was never published during his lifetime. In fact, we still do not know...
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To Live After Death: Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts
Situating the study on the “Phenomenology of afterlife” within the whole of Patočka’s thought, one can find several threads or complexes of ideas...
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Between Memory and History: Retracing Historical Knowledge Through a Phenomenology of Afterlife
How can Jan Patočka’s phenomenology of afterlife enable us to understand the historiographical process in general and the role of testimony in the...
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The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud
Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning the psychological and social effects of fictional...
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The Life and Afterlife of Phenomenology in Archaeological Theory and Practice
In 1994, Christopher Tilley published his treatise, A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, that stimulated what has been referred...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions...
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The Phenomenology of Inayan
This phenomenological study attempts to describe and understand the many roles of Inayan in the lived experiences and indigenous beliefs and...
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Beyond “Dreydegger”: The Future of Anglo-American Existential Phenomenology
Although there are many philosophers responsible for introducing phenomenology to philosophy departments in the United States and United Kingdom...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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The Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
This chapter is devoted to the comparative analysis of the phenomenological and the psychoanalytic unconscious. The aim of the chapter is to examine...
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What Does It Mean to Love the Dead?
The question of what it means to love the dead touches both our relationships to specific others and our relationship to history as such. To address...
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Towards a Phenomenology of Dark Tourist Experiences
Dark Tourism represents the intersection of reflections on mortality with the commodification and consumption of death as a tourist experience. It is...
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Forgiveness and the Dead
One of Patočka’s central examples in “The phenomenology of afterlife” is how to understand one’s relation to one’s dead father. Since relations of...
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The Intimacy of Disappearance
That the presence of others, after their death, continues to resonate within our own lives, that, in other words, death does not rob the other of...
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Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife
The tasks of this text are not historical, at least in the sense of describing historical facts or sources. Today in the factual history of Russian...
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Prolegomena to a phenomenology of “religious violence”: an introductory exposition
This introductory essay discusses how the trope of “religious violence” is operative in contemporary discussions concerning the so-called “return of...
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Introduction
This book explores phenomenology as a diverse movement in philosophy and as an active research method that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Bringing...
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Postmortal Openness to Meaning
Human life ends with death, but not necessarily in all its forms. In the paper, I recall two basic ways in which it does not end and discuss in...