Erazim Kohak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erazim Kohak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erazim |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohak |
| SIGNATURE | KOHAK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Demokracja na burzliwe czasy
Foul-Weather DemocracyThis article is a translation comprising the last chapter and summary of the book Průvodce po demokracii [A Guide Through Democracy], first published in 1997, in which Erazim Kohák shares the experiences of his life in the US and compares it with challenges faced by the new Central-European democracies. This essay describes three fundamental threats the world faces at the turn of the 21st century: demographic, ecological and…
Doom and Democracy
Doom and Democracy: An Essay in Political Soteriology The essay explores the philosophical (metatheoretical) presuppositions of democratic social strategy in the current "apocalyptic age". Here democracy means a way of life based on the assumption that individual freedom, mutual respect and fundamental good will toward the other can be taken for granted; as a feasible and a desirable way of ordering human affairs. In this broadly cultural sense, …
Body, community, language, world
Patocka, like few others before or since, combined what was best in Husserl and Heidegger, but at the same time found for himself a distinct, original philosophical voice. Both his originality and his synthesis of the two dominant strands of classical phenomenology are evident here, as Patocka pursues the threefold theme of subject body, human community, and the phenomenological understanding of world. This volume is an excellent introduction to …
Varieties of Ecological Experience
This paper started out as a modest little survey of the varieties of ecological experience, with a deep formal bow to William James and a conspiratorial wink to Edmund Husserl. It ended up wrestling with that tar baby of ecological ethics, the place of (anthropocentric) moral categories within a (biocentric) evolutionary reality
Speaking to trees
What is the epistemological status of a world within which speaking to trees would appear as an appropriate behavior? It would be a world perceived as a community of autonomous beings worthy of respect. Such a world contrasts with the anthropocentric conception of the world as a value‐free reservoir of raw materials, but neither worldview can or should claim descriptive accuracy. Both are equally "manners of speaking" and the choice between them …
Forest lights
Sigmund freud by moonlight
Anti-gorgias
The Social Question
The Victors and the Vanquished
The Czechoslovak Reform Movement
Freedom and Nature
Freedom and Nature
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Freedom and Nature : The voluntary and the involuntary. By Paul Ricoeur. Translated by Erazim Kohak. (Evanston : Northwestern University Press. 1966. Pp. xl + 498. Price $12.95). Mary Warnock Mary Warnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 68, July 1967, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218175 Published: 01 July 1967
T. G. Masaryk's Revision of Marxism
Freedom and Nature
Speaking to trees
What is the epistemological status of a world within which speaking to trees would appear as an appropriate behavior? It would be a world perceived as a community of autonomous beings worthy of respect. Such a world contrasts with the anthropocentric conception of the world as a value‐free reservoir of raw materials, but neither worldview can or should claim descriptive accuracy. Both are equally "manners of speaking" and the choice between them …
Varieties of Ecological Experience
This paper started out as a modest little survey of the varieties of ecological experience, with a deep formal bow to William James and a conspiratorial wink to Edmund Husserl. It ended up wrestling with that tar baby of ecological ethics, the place of (anthropocentric) moral categories within a (biocentric) evolutionary reality
The Czechoslovak Reform Movement
T. G. Masaryk's Revision of Marxism
T. G. Masaryk's Revision of Marxism
Freedom and Nature
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Freedom and Nature : The voluntary and the involuntary. By Paul Ricoeur. Translated by Erazim Kohak. (Evanston : Northwestern University Press. 1966. Pp. xl + 498. Price $12.95). Mary Warnock Mary Warnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 68, July 1967, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218175 Published: 01 July 1967
Freedom and Nature
The Czechoslovak Reform Movement
The Social Question
The Victors and the Vanquished
Anti-gorgias
Sigmund freud by moonlight
Forest lights
Speaking to trees
What is the epistemological status of a world within which speaking to trees would appear as an appropriate behavior? It would be a world perceived as a community of autonomous beings worthy of respect. Such a world contrasts with the anthropocentric conception of the world as a value‐free reservoir of raw materials, but neither worldview can or should claim descriptive accuracy. Both are equally "manners of speaking" and the choice between them …
Varieties of Ecological Experience
This paper started out as a modest little survey of the varieties of ecological experience, with a deep formal bow to William James and a conspiratorial wink to Edmund Husserl. It ended up wrestling with that tar baby of ecological ethics, the place of (anthropocentric) moral categories within a (biocentric) evolutionary reality
Body, community, language, world
Patocka, like few others before or since, combined what was best in Husserl and Heidegger, but at the same time found for himself a distinct, original philosophical voice. Both his originality and his synthesis of the two dominant strands of classical phenomenology are evident here, as Patocka pursues the threefold theme of subject body, human community, and the phenomenological understanding of world. This volume is an excellent introduction to …
Doom and Democracy
Doom and Democracy: An Essay in Political Soteriology The essay explores the philosophical (metatheoretical) presuppositions of democratic social strategy in the current "apocalyptic age". Here democracy means a way of life based on the assumption that individual freedom, mutual respect and fundamental good will toward the other can be taken for granted; as a feasible and a desirable way of ordering human affairs. In this broadly cultural sense, …
Demokracja na burzliwe czasy
Foul-Weather DemocracyThis article is a translation comprising the last chapter and summary of the book Průvodce po demokracii [A Guide Through Democracy], first published in 1997, in which Erazim Kohák shares the experiences of his life in the US and compares it with challenges faced by the new Central-European democracies. This essay describes three fundamental threats the world faces at the turn of the 21st century: demographic, ecological and…
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)