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Erazim Kohák
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Erazim Kohák (21 May 1933 – 8 February 2020) was a Czech philosopher and writer. His early education was in Prague. After communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, his family escaped to the United States. He died in February 2020 at the age of 86.
Kohák was born in Prague in May 1933. He studied at Colgate University, earning a B.A. in 1954, and then studied philosophy, theology and religious studies at Yale University (M.A. in 1957, PhD in 1958). He also worked at Gustavus Adolphus College and Boston University (Professor in 1977). After the Velvet revolution in 1989, he returned to Czechoslovakia to become a professor at Charles University in Prague. Since 2006, he has been a senior research fellow in the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
He supported several non-governmental ecological organizations and was a member of the honorary board of Děti Země (Children of the Earth) and Společnost pro trvale udržitelný život (Society for Sustainable Living).
Na vlastní kůži (The Time at Firsthand). With Heda Kovály. Toronto, 68 Publishers, 1973A dialogue about Communism and democracy with the widow of a prominent Communist executed in the Slánský trial (in Czech)
The Victors and the Vanquished. With Heda Kovály. New York, Horizon Press, 1973.An English mutation of the above, rewritten for Western reader (in English)
Národ v nás (The nation we bear within). Toronto, 68 Publishers, 1978An examination of the meaning, if any, of Czech and Czechoslovak national identity against the background of the Communist “normalization“ (in Czech)
Idea and Experience: Husserl‘s Project of Phenomenology in Ideen I. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1978, 1982.An interpretation of Husserl‘s phenomenology stressing its critical and realistic thrust (in English)
The Embers and the Stars: Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984, 1987A philosophical essay based on life in a forest clearing, focusing on ecophenomenology (in English)
Krize rozumu a přirozený svět (The Crisis of Reason and the Natural World).
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