Václav Havel, Or, Living in Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Václav Havel, Or, Living in Truth write by Václav Havel. This book was released on 1987. Václav Havel, Or, Living in Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Power of the Powerless
The Power of the Powerless - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of the Powerless write by Vaclav Havel. This book was released on 2016-09-16. The Power of the Powerless available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.
Havel
Havel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Havel write by Michael Zantovsky. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Havel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The “definitive biography” of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia—and first president of the Czech Republic (Walter Isaacson). This portrait of Vaclav Havel, iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist, is written by his former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend—and recounts the turbulent twentieth-century era through which he prevailed. Havel’s lifelong perspective as an outsider began with his privileged childhood in Prague and his family’s blacklisted status following the Communist coup of 1948. This feeling of being outcast fueled his career as an essayist and a dramatist writing absurdist plays as social commentary. His involvement during the Prague Spring and his leadership of Charter 77, his unflagging belief in the power of the powerless, and his galvanizing personality catapulted Havel into a pivotal role as the leader of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Although Havel was a courageous visionary, he was also a man of great contradictions, wracked with doubt and self-criticism. But he always remained true to himself. This “smart and exciting” biography is “both inspiring and filled with lessons for our time” (Walter Isaacson). “Havel was one of the most important intellectual-troublemaking statesmen of his time—a nonconformist, determined to live in truth, who questioned the system, his countrymen and himself constantly. No one is better suited than Michael Zantovsky to describe, interpret, and analyze this moral giant . . . A brilliantly informed intellectual and political history.” —Madeleine Albright “Entertaining, intimate, and moving . . . Zantovsky’s voice—that of a natural storyteller with an eye for the memorable anecdote, a mischievous wit, an easy intelligence, and keen sense of balance and fairness—is so engaging.” —Paul Wilson, The New York Review of Books
Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vaclav Havel write by Václav Havel. This book was released on 1987-03-01. Vaclav Havel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Václav Havel
Václav Havel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Václav Havel write by James F. Pontuso. This book was released on 2004. Václav Havel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than any other public figure, VOclav Havel has reflected on the opportunities and dilemmas facing humankind as a result of the collapse of Communism. In VOclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age, James F. Pontuso argues that Havel's life as a dissident and political leader, his political philosophy, and his plays must be understood as connected to one another. Pontuso skillfully explores these connections and explains Havel's prescriptions for political life.
