Václav Havel S Meanings

Author : David Danaher,Kieran Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8024649411

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Václav Havel's Meanings by David Danaher,Kieran Williams Pdf

A close read of the rich collections of texts left behind by Václav Havel, one of the most important Czech thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century. No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years since his passing, his legacy has only grown, as developments in the Czech Republic and elsewhere around the world continue to show the importance of his work and writing against a range of political and social ills, from autocratic brutality to messianic populism. This book looks squarely at the heart of Havel's legacy: the rich corpus of texts he left behind. It analyzes the meanings of key concepts in Havel's core vocabulary: truth, power, civilsociety, home, appeal, indifference, hotspot, theatre, prison, and responsibility. Where do these concepts appear in Havel's oeuvre? What part do they play in his larger intellectual project? How might we understand Havel's focus on these concepts as a centerpiece of his contribution to contemporary thought? How does Havel's particular perspective on the meaning of these concepts speak to us in the here and now? The ten contributors use a variety of methodological tools to examine the meaning of these concepts, drawing on a diversity of disciplines: political science and political philosophy, historical and cultural analysis, discourse/textual analysis, and linguistic-corpus analysis.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465011742

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Vaclav Havel by John Keane Pdf

This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that of his African counterpart Nelson Mandela, has been shaped and determined by the large political shifts of the twentieth century. Readers will taste the moments of joy, irony, farce, and misfortune through which he has lived, and realize that he has taught the world more about the powerful and the powerless, power-grabbing and power-sharing, than virtually anyone else on the world stage.

Author : David S. Danaher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442649927

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Reading Václav Havel by David S. Danaher Pdf

In Reading Václav Havel, David S. Danaher approaches Havel's remarkable body of work holistically, focusing on the language, images, and ideas which appear and reappear in the many genres in which Havel wrote.

Author : Vaclav Havel,John Keane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315487359

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The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe by Vaclav Havel,John Keane Pdf

Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal aspects of risk management; land-use planning and building code enforcement regulations; insurance issues; emergency management systems; and managing natural and manmade disasters.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473561960

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The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel Pdf

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra

Author : Vaclav Havel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571301393

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Leaving by Vaclav Havel Pdf

Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein. With echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Vaclav Havel's Leaving addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the transfer of power from one generation to the next. The play received its English-language world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in September 2008. Leaving is Vaclav Havel's first play since he was propelled to political office in 1989.

Author : Daniel Brennan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004332195

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The Political Thought of Václav Havel by Daniel Brennan Pdf

This book explores the influences on the thought of Václav Havel and how Havel develops a unique political philosophy from these. This is informed from the phenomenological tradition. The book situates this philosophy among current debates in liberalism and agonism.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080213307X

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The Garden Party and Other Plays by Václav Havel Pdf

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.

Author : Eda Kriseová
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN : 8072525387

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Václav Havel by Eda Kriseová Pdf

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 0571143628

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Disturbing the Peace by Václav Havel Pdf

On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Vaclav Havel looks back on his life in the theatre, the literary politics of his early years and the stagnation that followed the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Havel also discusses his part in his country's struggle to restore morality and civic responsibility to public life and the price he has paid for this.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Black humor
ISBN : UOM:49015001267740

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The Memorandum by Václav Havel Pdf

The Memorandum is a remarkably witty assault on the madness of "efficiency" peculiar to total bureaucracy. In a large office, and unknown to the Managing Director, a new language called Ptydepe is installed as the official means of inter-office communication

Author : James F. Pontuso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742522563

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Václav Havel by James F. Pontuso Pdf

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.

Author : Vaclav Havel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077268723

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Open Letters by Vaclav Havel Pdf

The 25 years' worth of essays, letters, interviews, and reportage collected in this historic volume portray Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright with the courage to criticize his country's dictator to his election as President of Czechslovakia. hero".--Kirkus Reviews.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 031754053X

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Vaclav Havel by Václav Havel Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-07T22:59:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798822504561

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Summary of Vaclav Havel & John Keane's The Power of the Powerless by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Power of the Powerless was a book written by Czech writer Václav Havel, who described how his country was able to resist totalitarianism. He believed that the book was also a critique of the Western democracies. #2 Havel’s essay, The Power of the Powerless, is about how we must take responsibility for truth in the world. Truth is what moves us in the world, and how we move the world back. We must take decisions that accord with our personal sense of what matters. #3 Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless, was published in Czechoslovakia in 1978. It was a collection of essays about dissent, and it exposed the abnormality of normalization. It changed the semantics of the political drama so that typical behavior seemed absurd. #4 Following 1968, the Czechoslovak government allowed the writer Jaroslav Dietl to work as a screenwriter for Czechoslovak state television. He took policies that would have been portrayed by earlier Stalinists as heroic, such as the collectivization of agriculture or the demolition of old town centers, and turned them into the backdrop for soap operas.