Centre for Theoretical Study – The Jan Patočka Archive
director
doc. Cyril Říha, Ph.D.deputy director
Mgr. Jan Frei, Ph.D. et Ph.D.head of The Jan Patočka Archive
Mgr. Jan Frei, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
contacts
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1
(vchod z Husovy 4)
Tel.: (+420) 222 220 671-2
Fax: (+420) 222 220 653
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Jan Patočka Archive originated de facto on the day of Patočka's death, 13 March 1977, when his students hid Patočka's literary legacy from the StB (State Security) and secretly started its publication (27 volumes until 1989).
In January 1990, the Archive was formally founded as part of the Institute of Philosophy of the present-day Czech Academy of Sciences. From 1993, it has been a part of Centre for Theoretical Study (CTS).
The purpose of the Archive is to preserve and make accessible the philosophical heritage of Jan Patočka. The Archive collects manuscripts, pictorial material and other documents related to Patočka's life and the epoch of phenomenology; it publishes Patočka's works and it makes the source material available to researchers as well as to editors of foreign-language editions of Patočka's texts.
The Archive is also digitising Patočka's manuscripts and other sources and preparing an electronic edition of Patočka's writings.
Apart of these services, the members of the archive perform their own research and organize seminars on Patočka's philosophy.
Our main long-term project is the edition of the Collected Works of Jan Patočka (published by OIKOYMENH, in Czech).
| Already Published: | To be published: |
| Care for the Soul I–III | Phenomenological Writings III/3 |
| Art and Time I–II | Lectures on Ancient Philosophy I–III |
| Phenomenological Writings I, II, III/1, III/2 | Papers on History of Philosophy I–II |
| Studies on Comenius I–III | Introduction to Philosophy |
| The Czechs I–II | Correspondence with Polish Philosophers |
| Lectures on Ancient Philosophy IV | Correspondence with German Philosophers |
| Aristotle, his Predecessors and Heirs | I–III |
| Hegel‘s Phenomenology of the Spirit | Correspondence with Robert Campbell |
| Philosophical Diaries 1946–1950 | Correspondence with Czech Partners |
| Correspondence with Václav Richter | Addenda and Indexes |
| Correspondence with Comenius Scholars I–II |
