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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Philosophy of Literature often powerfulJan Patoka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he was a philosophical inspiration to Vclav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Soviet regimes before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77 in