James Cartlidge

This project examines Patočka’s contribution to the critique of early Heideggerian phenomenology through the conceptual lens of "existential structures": essential features which structure every case of human existence. Some of Patočka’s most important phenomenological reflections––especially those on "movement," "corporeality" and "being-with"––can be read as an attempt to draw out the political implications of Heidegger’s structures or identify existential structures that Heidegger missed.