The Dissident : six Readings of "The Power of the Powerless" by Vaclav Havel   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2510633B

  Author(s)

  Bjork, Ulrika

  City

  Prague 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788070077009 

  Date of Publication

  2022 

  Publisher

  Czech Academy of Sciences  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  123 

  Series

  Filosoficky casopis : special issues 2022.1

  Subject

  Philosophy / Psychology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Björk, Ulrika

  Publisher

  Czech Academy of Sciences  

• Description

  This special issue is devoted to rereading and reassessing Václav Havel’s seminal essay “The Power of the Powerless”, in the light of the present day culture and ethico-political scene. The Chartist efforts to pursue a non-political politics, lead us to reflect upon power relations and pre-political textures, where existential, political and ethical concerns are allowed to come forth as intermingled, not only with each other but also with questions about language, symbolism and truth. The papers collected here are investigations into how these forms of interconnection and intertwining between ethics, existential concerns, authenticity, language, meaning and truth look.