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The world and the body. The movement of human existence by Jan Patočka

Publication at Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Arts |
2018

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present some reflections about corporeity in Jan Patočka's phenomenological texts, which are especially known by his articles and conferences from the second half of the 60s in the 20th century. The author of this article attempts to distinguish three levels of these reflections by the following titles: body, lived body or own body, and affectivity.

The context of these considerations is, as in every work by Patočka, the relation of existence to the world. The article considers the original contribution by Patočka concerning the phenomenological analysis of the human being in the world, as well as the new status, which here receives this relationship, in which not only human being is conceived as movement, but also the world itself and the manifestation of things in the world are considered from the viewpoint of movement.