Abstrakt
Phenomenological incursions into Czech literary scholarship are associated with the Structuralism of the Prague Linguistic Circle in the second half of the 1930s. If we are to characterise Patočka's works dealing with works of literature and art, we might say that he takes art, too, to be part of the phenomenology of the natural world ('lifeworld').
In Patočka's first essays on literature and art, he is already concerned with the movement of existence as one of the key problems of art and artistic creativity, which he interprets as a mode of the practice of living. Přemysl Blažíček's basic thesis is that the evolution of modern Czech verse, as a process of "becoming self-aware", tends towards the suppression of the communicative function as a statement on a given reality and towards the realisation of sense, seen by Blažíček in an intensification of factuality.