The ‘moderate’ form of supercivilisation : the unending crisis of liberalism and the possibility of its resolution

Abstract

The chapter analyses Jan Patočka's understanding of liberalism and the inherent tension between liberalism and radicalism (Marxism) as elaborated in his essay on the so-called supercivilisation.

Keywords

• Jan Patočka
• supercivilisation
• civilisation analysis
• Marxism
• liberalism
• political philosophy