Jan Patočka and James Mensch on World and Movement

Jan Patočka has increasingly referred to movement and lived/physical corporeality, precisely because he conceives the concept of the world in terms of the correlation between life and its milieu. The accent on movement and lived/physical corporeality has also influenced James Mensch’s own project; as his transformation of phenomenology such as those of Patočka and Merleau-Ponty, has been stamped by an irreducible facticity, inseparably linked to the physical/lived corporeality of the movement of all life. The present essay is meant to serve, above all, as an appreciation, recognizing and honoring one stratum of Mensch’s philosophical project—the one based on his reading of Patočka.