Jan Patocka (1907-77) was a Czech philosopher. He specialised in phenomenonology and the philosophy of history and his works include Plato and Europe, which was a collection of his lectures and Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History.

Foreword, Graham Henderson
Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
Timeline

Introduction, Erin Plunkett

PART ONE: Early Texts
1. A Few Remarks on the Concept of "World History" (1935)
2. The Idea of Education and its Relevance Today (1938)

PART TWO: Care for the Soul
3. Limping Pilgrim Josef Capek (1950-1964)
4. On the Soul in Plato (1972)
5. Comenius and the Open Soul (1970)

PART THREE: Phenomenology
6. The Natural World and Phenomenology (1967)
7. What is Phenomenology? (1975)

PART FOUR: Arts and Culture
8. Time, Myth, Faith (1952)
9. Art and Time (1966)
10. Time, Eternity, and Temporality in the Work of Karel Hynek Mácha (1967)
11. On the Principle of Scientific Conscience (1968)
12. The Writer's Concern (Toward a Philosophy of Literature) (1969)
13. Ivanov (1970)
14. The Truth of Myth in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1971)
15. On Faust: The Myth of the Pact with the Devil-Observation on the Variants of the Faust Legend (1973)

PART FIVE: Philosophy of History
16. The Spiritual Foundations of Life in Our Time (1970)
17. The Dangers of Technicization in Science according to E. Husserl, and the Essence of Technology as Danger according to M. Heidegger (Varna Lecture, 1973)
18. The Spiritual Person and the Intellectual (1975)
19. An Outline of History (1976)

Postscript: Philosophy, Fate, and Sacrifice, Ludek Sekyra

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index