Karel Novotny

Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty Member

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Study of philosophy, 5 years physics (1982-89) and 3 years political science (1990-92) in Prague (1983-2003, PhD in philosophy), Eichstätt (1990-92) and Paris (1998-2000).
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El sentido de la naturaleza en Renaud Barbaras

Investigaciones fenomenológicas, Sep 28, 2023

The article refers to one of the theses of R. Barbaras, namely that "... all feeling is feeling o... more The article refers to one of the theses of R. Barbaras, namely that "... all feeling is feeling of nature ". This feeling is, in the end, the love of the world. It corresponds to the enigmatic opening of subjectivity by the world, that makes possible the passage from the anonymous process of the manifestation of the world to its appearance for the subjects, centralized around their movements of desire. If this motricity of desire is triggered by the feeling, the origin of the latter is the event of separation from the world, however, in the closest adhesion to it. The feeling equals, thus, to a tearing of the appearing of the innerworldly realities, which reminds a description of the transcendence of the Other in E. Levinas. If nothing of the world is manifested in the face of the Other according to Levinas, because all its phenomenality fades away, it is not the case for Barbaras since the feeling for him is a way of participating in the primary manifestation of the World, in the physis. Hence our proposal to link the feeling to the face of the nature.

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Jan Patočka and French Phenomenology

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Dec 10, 2021

In his phenomenological works-works that are thematically centered above all around the question ... more In his phenomenological works-works that are thematically centered above all around the question of the natural world-Jan Patočka increasingly referred to movement and lived/physical corporeality [Leib-Körperlichkeit], precisely because he conceived the concept of the world in terms of the correlation of life with its milieu.1 Patočka developed his phenomenology, in conjunction with Edmund Husserl's late phenomenology of the lifeworld, 2 by taking lived corporeality as his starting point and guiding motif in a way that is parallel to Merleau-Ponty's work. Patočka himself saw that this accent on corporeality indicated a kinship with French phenomenology. In our opinion, such an emphasis was also one of the reasons why he kept his distance from Eugen Fink's philosophical cosmology. And it is Patočka's reference to this cosmological project that has had, and keeps on having, an important impact on the recent reception of his work in France. Thus not only does Patočka's understanding of the lifeworld display the influence of French thinkers, but his work has become important for the development of phenomenological philosophy in France, particularly in one respect to which we shall limit ourself here: by virtue of his critical engagement with Eugen Fink, Patočka has become one source of the turn toward philosophical cosmology in French phenomenology, above all in the works of Renaud Barbaras, as well as in the work of authors he has influenced, like Pierre Rodrigo, and of some of their former PhD students working on Patočka. 4 This is, of course, merely one moment in the abundant development of phenomenology in France, but it is an important moment that greatly enhanced the reception of Patočka's work in general, and not only in France itself.

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World

Routledge eBooks, Aug 21, 2020

Life and the Natural World in the Early Work of Jan Patočka (1930–1945)

Contributions to phenomenology, 2020

This article is a brief overview of Jan Patocka’s early interpretation of phenomenology in his ac... more This article is a brief overview of Jan Patocka’s early interpretation of phenomenology in his academic writings based, on the one hand, on his 1931 doctoral dissertation and his 1936 habilitation thesis, and, on the other hand, on his first critical revision and his own conception of transcendental phenomenology put forward in an important group of manuscripts written between 1940 and 1945, which have recently been published in his Collected Works. The article examines these texts closely and focuses on Patocka’s attempts to link phenomenology with a philosophy of life. Important motifs that shaped Patocka’s philosophy beginning in the early 1940s were his reflections on the sources of evidence in life, the unity of the world in the life of transcendental subjectivity and a “deeper life-correlation” with nature.

Lidské a Nelidské V Levinasově Kritice Heideggera

Filozofia (Philosophy), 2014