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Martin Koci’s Thinking Faith after Christianity is a rigorous and nuanced study of Jan Patočka’s philosophy, ineluctable for researchers interested in post-Heideggerian phenomenology and philosophy of religion. Koci makes a unique contribution by reconstructing Patočka’s phenomenological insights into the meaning of faith such that Christianity can be rethought as a way to understanding the experience of transcendence in human existence without falling prey to Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology. This review emphasizes Koci’s interpretation of certain key texts in Patočka’s corpus that sheds a new light on a cluster of Patočka’s concetps, such as supercivilization, responsibility and historicity. With Koci’s original interpretation of faith, one might further advance the question as to whether Patočka’s philosophy paves the way for a phenomenological understanding of the core experience of non-Christian religion.
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Koci (2002, p.144).
Koci (2002, p.169).
Koci (2002, p.179).
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Koci (2002, p.195).
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Yuen-Hung Tai, J. Martin Koci: Thinking Faith after Christianity: A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka's Phenomenological Philosophy, 2020, New York: State University of New York Press, 301 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-7893-7, ISBN 978-1-4384-7892-0. Cont Philos Rev 55, 235–238 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-022-09570-3
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