The Correspondence of Irena Krońska with Jan Patočka as an Important Testimony of the Czech-Polish Philosophical Life

Wojciech Starzyński

The article describes the little known and explored philosophical relations between the Polish and Czech philosophers during the communist regime. Th eir main and rich expression was undoubtedly the long friendship between Polish philosopher and translator, Irena Krońska and the greatest Czech philosopher of XXth century, Jan Patočka. Reading their correspondence, we examine the leading themes, including the dialogue, the new subjectivity as an open soul, the Post-Europe as well as a theological and an aesthetic issues.

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Keywords: Jan Patočka · Irena Krońska · Tadeusz Kroński · dialogue · subjectivity · Post-Europe