{"product_id":"heretical-essays-in-the-philosophy-of-history-paperback","title":"Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Dodd\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJan Patocka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the \"natural world\" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book includes a translation of the Preface to the French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory begins inseparably with the birth of the polis and of philosophy. Both represent a unity in strife. History is life that no longer takes itself for granted. To speak, then, of the meaning of history is not to tell a story with a projected happy or unhappy ending, as Western civilization has hoped, at least since the French Revolution. History's meaning is the meaning of the struggle in which being both reveals and conceals itself. Technological society represents both the triumph of historicity and its implosion, since here humans turn from reaching for the sacrum imperium - life lived in the perspective of truth and justice - to the mundane satisfaction of mundane needs, to life lived for the sake of catering to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618046046515,"sku":"9780812693379","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OVVDQW85STNZTzUxTGd4Qm1LdlBYdz09.webp?v=1761900994","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/heretical-essays-in-the-philosophy-of-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}