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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
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the Power of the Powerless, Václav Havel
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- Released
- 2018
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Václav Havel
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN10
- 178487504x
- ISBN13
- 9781784875046
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Political Science & Politics, Czech Literature, Philosophical Topics, Politics, Opinion Journalism & Essays, International Relations, Democracy, Feuilleton, Totalitarian regimes, Society and Politics, Václav Havel, 1936–2011
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- 4.3 out of 5
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- 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