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Consolation at Night: Jan Patočka and his Correspondence with Comeniologists

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Mout N.

Acta Comeniana (International review of Comenius studies and early modern intellectual history)

2013

vol. 27

175-187

Jan Patočka (1907–1977) approached Johannes Amos Comenius as a fellow-philosopher, while admiring him also for his intellectual and moral steadfastness. He studied Comenius as a philosopher from the thirties onwards, stressing the latter's unique position in the history of Czech and European thought. Patočka's many Comeniological publications were analysed and highly appreciated by fellow-Comeniologists. In the first volume, containing correspondence with Czech friends and colleagues, letters start in the early thirties, but Comeniology, including the vicissitudes surrounding the edition of Comenius's complete works, come to the fore from the late fifties onwards. Correspondents include friends and colleagues such as Josef Brambora and Antonín Škarka and a few older colleagues. A large number of letters was exchanged with Comenius's biographer Milada Blekastad and with the young philosopher Stanislav Sousedík. The second volume comprises letters exchanged with only a few foreign correspondents: next to the Ukrainian scholar Dmytro Čyževskyj and the French colleague Marcelle Denis, a personal friend of Patočka's, the greater part of the volume is filled with letters to and from the German scholar and personal friend Klaus Schaller. These two volumes add much to our understanding of Patočka's nearly lifelong and profound interest in Comenius's thought. The intellectual acumen and constant engagement reflected in these letters must have meant much to Patočka and his Comeniological correspondents in and outside Czechoslovakia. Maybe these exchanges of letters brought some light and consolation even in the darkest of times.

Comenius und die Comeniologen. Stellungnahme zu einzelnen Positionen neuerer Comeniusforschung in ontotriadischer Perspektive

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Schadel E.

Acta Comeniana (International review of Comenius studies and early modern intellectual history)

2004

vol. 18

133-177

The main aim of this article is not to present a (externally) complete overview of research into Comenius' life and work, but rather to explore some significant trends in Comeniology, particularly those which - in the field of purely historical doxography - attempt to comment on the completeness of Comenius' thinking and its possible universal application. In this context, the first question to be considered is that of whether modern Comeniologists have taken on board the 'core' of Comenius' pansophy - the integrity of his onto-triadic (or onto-trinitarian) conception of reality. The article is divided into ten sections which consider this problem in detail. Initially (in sections I/II), the thesis that Comenius is a 'modern', and for that reason 'ambiguous', thinker is discussed. It becomes clear that it is not Comenius, but his modern interpreters who (by introducing their own presuppositions into the Comenian texts) are in fact 'ambiguous'. From the methodological perspective, as is subsequently elucidated (V/VI), the phenomenological philosophy (which markedly predominates in contemporary Comeniology) brings with it specific problem whenever it gives rise to a search for a matching approach to the integral horizon of Comenius' pansophy. It does not, for example, offer any satisfactory possibility of describing the transition from theory to practice as a complete, internally differentiated process. Similar difficulties are encountered in the various attempts to reconstruct the basic triadism of Comenius' thought (VII). It would seem that a solution to this problem could be attained if originally ontological reflections are considered (VIII). Thanks to this metaphysical method it is possible to explain the sought-after completeness as 'onto-logo-ethical', as the completeness that dawns in the in-ec-con-sistent rhythm. As Comenius explains in his early work, the 'Dilucidatio', as well as in the framework of his lifelong investigation into the 'verus Catholicismus' (III/IV), the aforementioned method contains within itself a development of the analogical conception of reality, i.e. that which empowers us to discover the same basic structure in different fields of experience. From this, both detailed analysis and the resolute realisation of Comenius' posthumous 'Triertium catholicum' (IX/X) project follow as tasks for a 'post-modern' Comeniology that has overcome the many ambiguities of 'modern' thinking.

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Consolation at Night: Jan Patočka and his Correspondence with Comeniologists

Comenius und die Comeniologen. Stellungnahme zu einzelnen Positionen neuerer Comeniusforschung in ontotriadischer Perspektive