An introduction to Patočka’s phenomenology will offer, firstly, concise summaries of the main phases of Patočka’s thinking in order to provide an overview of main alterations of Patočka’s phenomenology. In the second part, lectures will systematically develop and concretise especially the concept of the movements of existence presenting it as the living core of Patočka’s late phenomenology.
Next to the analysis of the body, the lectures will focus on the care for the soul, on the possibility of approaching the absolute and, finally, on the crisis of Europe.