The Body at the Front: Corporeity and Community in Jan Patočka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
The Body at the Front: Corporeity and Community in Jan Patočka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the relation in Patocka’s thought between the concepts of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken”, which we find in the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, particularly the sixth essay, “Wars of the Twentieth Century and The Twentieth Century as War”, and the phenomenological analysis of corporeity that we find in Patocka’s work from the late sixties, namely, “The Natural World and Phenomenology” (1967). We argue for a reading of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken” that emphasizes the importance of the body and intercorporeity. Based on this we argue for an interpretation of PatoËka’s “absolute” as life’s transcendence of itself

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