Whereas for the wider public Jan Patocka is known mainly as a defender of human rights and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, who died in Prague several days after long interrogations by secret police of the Communist regime, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and inspiring thinker, who in an original way elaborated the great impulses of European thought mainly Husserl s phenomenology and Heidegger s philosophy of existence. Patocka also reflected on history and the future of humanity in a globalized world and laid the foundations of an original...