An introduction to Husserl's philosophy written by one of his former students, himself an influential philosopher of the 20th century.

Jan Patocka is now considered to have been one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a student of both Husserl and Heidegger. He lived most of his adult life in Communist Czechoslovakia, where he was at times banned from publishing his work and from holding academic positions. Having written his Heretical Essays, Patocka defied the Communist regime as one of the spokespersons associated with Charta 77. He died in 1977, following two months of police interrogation.

• Editor's Preface
  
• Editor's Introduction
  
• Chapter 1: Phenomenology as a Philosophy and Its Relation to Traditional Metaphysical Approaches
  
• Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Arithmetic
  
• Chapter 3: Pure Logic: The Logical Investigations
  
• Chapter 4: The Concept of Phenomenon
  
• Chapter 5: Pure Logic and the Problem of the Grounding of Experience
  
• Chapter 6: The First Explanation of the Phenomenological Reduction
  
• Chapter 7: Analysis of Internal Time Consciousness
  
• Chapter 8: Incarnate Being
  
• Translator's Postscript to the English Edition of Jan Patocka's Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology
  
• Bibliography
  
• Name Index
  
• Analytic Table of Contents