Solidarity Among the Distraught: Jan Patočka and the Legacy of Charter 77
“There are things worth suffering for.” This statement, made just a few days before his death, constitutes the moral legacy of the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka. On the occasion of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Charter 77 civil rights movement, scholar Ludger Hagedorn dedicated his Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) to the final days of this extraordinary thinker.
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