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This is the fourth lecture of the series. Nineteenth-century philosophers “did not for a moment doubt the spiritual origins of European unity,” writes Patočka, “and their conception is surely...

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Is Thatcherism Conservative? Hannes H. Gissurarson a professor of politics will answer this question at his second lecture, based on his recent article on The Guardian’s “Distorted Image of That...

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This is the third lecture of the series. In Patočka’s third essay, his question is whether history has a meaning. It is of course possible to reply, dogmatically, in the negative (“History is c...

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Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson will be talking about the conservative-liberal tradition which stretches back to the medieval writers Snorri Sturluson and St. Thomas Aquinas, but which was developed mai...

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This is the second lecture of the series. “History is not intelligible without free responsibility.” This is one of Patočka’s many “heretical” convictions. It is in stark contrast to mate...

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This is the first lecture of the series. What is the world? This may seem like a strange question, but it is the one that opens Jan Patočka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, which ...

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The Danube Institute and the Friends of Hungary Foundation are hosting book launches. Three books that deal with the correspondence of Cardinal Mindszenty out of his refuge at the American Legation / ...

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Professor David Martin Jones discusses "Terror in the Western Mind"

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