Jan Patočka on Structuralism. Connections and Relationships

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Authors	SLÁDEK Ondřej
Year of publication	2020
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Bohemica litteraria
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Education
Citation
Web	https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/143037/1_BohemicaLitteraria_23-2020-2_9.pdf?sequence=1
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BL2020-2-7
Keywords	Jan Patočka; Jan Mukařovský; Václav Richter; phenomenology; The Prague Linguistic Circle; structuralism; semiotics; structural poetics
Description	The Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (1907–1977) knew the representatives of the Prague Linguistic Circle (e.g., Vilém Mathesius, Roman Jakobson and Jan Mukařovský) well, but they never established closer scholarly cooperation. The aims of this study are 1) to present Patočka’s views on structuralism, 2) to outline Patočka´s relationship to Czech structuralism, and especially with Jan Mukařovský. If Mukařovský can be considered one of the leading representatives of Czech structuralism and analytic-structural thinking about art, Patočka was a thinker who sought a synthesizing philosophical approach.