How can the Legend of Faust Speak to People Today? Cover Image

Jak dnes může promlouvat pověst o Faustovi?
How can the Legend of Faust Speak to People Today?

Author(s): Zuzana Svobodová
Subject(s): Epistemology, Contemporary Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Published by: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity
Keywords: Goethe’s Faust; Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus; Václav Havel’s play Temptation; Jan Patočka; paideia; knowledge; responsibility;

Summary/Abstract: The present text examines Patočka’s texts on the Faust theme, together with Havel’s play Temptation. It seeks inspiration from elaborating the Faust theme for a person who desires an understanding of himself (herself), of others and the world. A comparison of the Faust saga’s various adaptations seeks a version of the Faust legend and its participation in the truth of man, the history of the world and life. The text’s primary purpose is to show not only how the Faust legend can speak to a person at all. However, above all, how this legend can speak to people today and whether this speech implies something essential for human education at this time.

  • Issue Year: 12/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-39
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech