Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death

Gustav Strandberg is a philosopher and translator, based at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He is the author of a monograph on Patočka, entitled Politikens omskakning: negativitet, samexistens och frihet i Jan Patočkas tänkande (The Tremor of Politics: Negativity, Co-existence, and Freedom in the Thought of Jan Patočka) and the editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought, published by Bloomsbury in 2023.Hugo Strandberg is associate professor of philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of several monographs, the two most recent being Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception and Forgiveness and Moral Understanding, both published by Palgrave (in 2015 and 2021).

• 1. Gustav Strandberg and Hugo Strandberg: Introduction.- 2. Jan Patočka: The Phenomenology of Afterlife.- 3. Jan Frei: To Live after Death: Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts.- 4. Gustav Strandberg: Dying with the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community.- 5. Nicolas de Warren: The Intimacy of Disappearance.- 6. Hugo Strandberg: Forgiveness and the Dead.- 7. Tomáš Hejduk: Postmortal Openness to Meaning.- 8. Ondřej Beran: The Other Modern Séances.- 9. Erin Plunkett: What Does It Mean to Love the Dead?.- 10. Lovisa Andén: Between Memory and History: Retracing Historical Knowledge through a Phenomenology of Afterlife.- 11. Antony Fredriksson: Drawing a Line or Blurring the Contour between Animate and Inanimate with Clarice Lispector and Jan Patočka.- 12. Niklas Forsberg: “Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations.