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James Dodd gives us a lucid and comprehensive account of Patocka's work, thought, and life: his idea of Europe and its classical origins; his background in phenomenology; and his role in the turbulent events of postwar Prague. For Dodd, Patocka's thinking can be characterized as a philosophy of history rooted in a phenomenological ontology. --David Carr, author of Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical Worl The best synthetic account of Patocka's thought I've read. Dodd reads Patocka with an empathy and generosity; he writes of him in a way absolutely devoid of hagiography (which is not so easy when dealing with a Socrates-like figure), defensiveness, and apologetics. The analysis is subtle, the writing deeply reflective and never gratuitously polemical. --Marci Shore, author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

James Dodd gives us a lucid and comprehensive account of Patocka's work, thought, and life: his idea of Europe and its classical origins; his background in phenomenology; and his role in the turbulent events of postwar Prague. For Dodd, Patocka's thinking can be characterized as a philosophy of history rooted in a phenomenological ontology. --David Carr, author of Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World The best synthetic account of Patocka's thought I've read. Dodd reads Patocka with an empathy and generosity; he writes of him in a way absolutely devoid of hagiography (which is not so easy when dealing with a Socrates-like figure), defensiveness, and apologetics. The analysis is subtle, the writing deeply reflective and never gratuitously polemical. --Marci Shore, author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

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JAMES DODD is a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. His books include Violence and Phenomenology and Crisis and Reflection: An Essay on Husserl's ""Crisis of the European Sciences.""

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