From a “life in the idea” to a “life in truth”: Patočka and Havel on truth and politics

Title:

From a “life in the idea” to a “life in truth”: Patočka and Havel on truth and politics

Creator:

Strandberg, Gustav

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:708ffb7b-6df7-4afd-90d9-d348e399d4b8
uuid:708ffb7b-6df7-4afd-90d9-d348e399d4b8
doi:10.46854/fc.2021.4s35

Subject:

Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, truth, politics, problematicity, and negativity

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This article discusses the relationship between Jan Patočka's and Václav Havel's political writings. By specifically focusing on Patočka's concepts a "life in the idea" and a "life in problematicity" and Havel's notion of a "life in truth", it seeks to draw out the differences and similarities between their respective understandings of the relationship between truth and politics. The paper argues that Havel reinterpreted Patočka's ideas in a way, which in the final analysis diverged from Patočka's original intentions. Finally, the article argues that Havel's, in many ways productive, reinterpretation gives rise to a highly problematic conception of ideology and politics since the "prepolitical" form of politics that Havel envisions ultimately tends to naturalize both truth and politics.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

35-49

Source:

Filosofický časopis | 2022 Volume:70 | Number:Special issue 1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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