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Patocka’s concept of post-Europe

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The task of my inquiry is to lay out the main tenets of Patočka’s discussion of the concept of “post-Europe” and “post-European humanity”, as they emerge from his late works Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, Plato and Europe, and Europe and post-Europe. In the first part, I examine Patočka’s account of the “the shipwreck of Europe” and will bring out the various strands of analysis embedded in this thesis. In particular, I insist on the intimate link established between the political end of Europe and the intrinsic finitude of the European historical project. Secondly, I reconstruct Patočka’s philosophical genealogy of Europe and post- Europe and explain that his diagnosis of an “end of Europe” rests on a critical discussion of the teleological narrative of Europe advanced by Husserl in his Crisis. Finally, I try to make sense of Patočka’s thesis that the demise of Europe does not foreclose the possibility of a renewal, that even after its historical collapse, there still remains a “specific future for Europe”.

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Philosophie
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hal-04020543 , version 1 (09-03-2023)

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Ovidiu Stanciu. Patocka’s concept of post-Europe. R. Uljée; B. Zaantvort; G. Tsagidis. Reimagining Europe, SUNY, inPress. ⟨hal-04020543⟩
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