Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History Regis Debray and The Web and the

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The deliberate ambiguity of Kierkegaard

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Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History Regis Debray and The Web and theHeretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the natural world as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger. According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth,