Papers by Michaela Belejkanicova
Studies in East European Thought, Jul 6, 2021
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Kontradikce/Contradictions, 2018
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Studies in East European Thought, 2021
In his Heretical Essays, Jan Patočka introduces the concept of the solidarity of the shaken. He a... more In his Heretical Essays, Jan Patočka introduces the concept of the solidarity of the shaken. He argues that it emerges in the conditions of political violence—the frontline experience (Fronterlebnis). Moreover, Patočka brings into discussion the puzzling concepts of day, night, metanoia and sacrifice, which only further problematise the idea. Researching how other thinkers have examined the phenomenon of the frontline experience, it becomes obvious that Patočka did not invent the obscure vocabulary ex nihilo. Concepts such as frontline experience, sacrifice and the metaphors of the day and night were commonly used by thinkers in the inter-war and post-war eras in their examination of community (Gemeinschaft). This study aims to reconstruct the idea of the solidarity of the shaken as contextualized within a broader scholarly debate on the concept of community (Gemeinschaft). Through the critical dialogue between Patočka’s works and the works of Ernst Jünger and Pierre Teilhard de Cha...
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Studies in East European Thought, 2021
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Ethics & Bioethics
In his two works from the 1970s, Patočka proposes a very personal way that the spiritual crisis, ... more In his two works from the 1970s, Patočka proposes a very personal way that the spiritual crisis, which manifests itself as a techno-scientific reality of Gestell, can be overcome. Patočka argues that the only way to escape spiritual decline is through sacrifice. This study examines how the ethical is represented in Patočka’s philosophy. It focuses on his two main concepts of sacrifice and care for the soul and explores the relationship between them. Through a close reading of Plato and Europe (1973), ‘Four Seminars’ (1973), and his essay ‘The dangers of technicization’ (1973), this study reveals how Patočka proposes that the ethical can be implemented within the realm of the political. Drawing a parallel between Socrates’ and Patočka’s lives and fates, this study points to the significance of ethics in political life – both in the ancient Greek polis of Socrates’ time and in communist Czechoslovakia in Patočka’s time. This approach highlights the influence that the philosophy of Soc...
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Slovo, 2013
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Books by Michaela Belejkanicova
Contradictions, 2018
The English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Dan Swain on Marxism and ... more The English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Dan Swain on Marxism and theories of justice, Nicole Pepperell on Lukács, Peter Steiner on Václav Havel, Robert Kalivoda on Marx and Freud, Alain Badiou on communism, and others.
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