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... Havel. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 column CHINA’S SAKHAROV AND HAVEL Fang Lizhi, 1936 – 2012 Orville Schell As Chinese troops entered Beijing on the night of June 4, 1989, and then shot their way...

..., with Václav Havel, coorganizer of Charter 77. From his insider’s perspective, the author retells the history of dissent in communist Europe from that time until the Velvet Revolution and Havel’s election as president of Czechoslovakia in 1989. He also assesses the impact of Havel’s work as a playwright...

...Václav Havel; Adam Michnik; Translated by Clare Cavanagh; Jeffrey M. Perl This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the most crucial Soviet bloc dissidents about developments since the 1989 overthrow of communismin their part of the world. They agree that a “creeping coup d’état...

...Václav Havel; Adam Michnik This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the crucial figures in the world of Soviet bloc dissidents about developments in their part of the world since the overthrow of communism there in 1989. They agree that a “creeping coup d'état” is underway...

...Jeffrey C. Isaac Duke University Press 2004 RETHINKING THE LEGACY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN DISSIDENCE Jeffrey C. Isaac It is now more than a quarter century since the first expressions of Central Euro- pean “antipolitical” dissidence—Václav Havel’s open letter to President Husák, Adam...

...” to problems that, in better times, we might leave to politicians to resolve. “The crisis for democracy today,” Perl argues, “is that bad government (as Konrád, Václav Havel, and Adam Michnik defined it in the 1980s) appears to be what various electorates crave and therefore choose.” Realizing that elections...

... effect. Whichever team won (I think the nays had it), the less,”contrary,onthe continues:“Whatif, futurebrighter here [the been has under house arrest within the month. His prophecy, “The Power of the Power- the Prague thought authorities at knew the better,time—but and Havel was put distant.”so...

... of oppressive political regimes and especially about the genesis of the celebrated crop of Czech novelists and dramatists of the absurd headed by Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, and Václav Havel. Evidently Franz Kafka, as the encapsulation of contemporary popular understandings of the absurd, is central...

... majority must be told as well if we are to that argues Colley invaders,” imperial ofEuropean majority up the made whoalways whites poor of “those Writing introduction. ley’s sixteen-page Václav by Havel. puissant and famous both made amotto as same) the means...

..., elegant, and concise, Ignatieff offers us his digest of the wisdom—the wisdom of consolation—that he has sought to find in writings as old as the book of Job and as recent as some of the letters of Václav Havel. Concluding the book, Ignatieff says of the authors he has surveyed that the “consolation...

... of the political than of the intel- lectual communities of Europe. But the processes are analogous. As the eupho- ria of 1989 subsided, journals in the West that had lionized Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, and György Konrád noticed (with a condescension that appeared to mask alarm...

... of the political than of the intel- lectual communities of Europe. But the processes are analogous. As the eupho- ria of 1989 subsided, journals in the West that had lionized Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, and György Konrád noticed (with a condescension that appeared to mask alarm...

... history. intellectual European modern in cializing Knowledge 1989 after Period “The column, coauthored Powszechny Tygodnik journal the by Medal George St. the awarded together were Václav He and Havel Eagle. White ofthe Order the decoration, Polish highest the and government...

... of vile behavior. You might say that M. Gandhi and L. Tolstoy have been our guides, though more immediately our guides have been, perhaps, Václav Havel and J. M. Coetzee. What, consis- tently, we have opposed is martyrdom. Have you looked at Decorate the Dungeon, an essay that the English medievalist...

... of Greeks Argen Brazil, Africa, include books South His Scotland. and Egypt, Australia, in Zealand, New tina, universities at taught also has and University Brown Konstan David Václav Havel...

... when “living in truth” came under the spotlight of spotlight worldunder the came around attention, truth” in when “living Yet truth.” in “living Václavwhat called underlay Havel would outlined kowski...

... values. his ordering or ofintegrating way any with its hope that love should at some time future become the Rauschenbusch, Walteronly law,grandfather, provided maternal his of Christianity secularized Trotsky and JamesWilliam Whitman, and Václav Havel” as he came to conceive...

..., European and United Nations tothe ambassador British aformer Hannay, Lord instance, For governments. and publics toeducate upon were called whenscholars days the 1989 Velvet the of in Revolutions Michnik Adam and Konrád, Václav György Havel, tual infl ofintellec- terms...

...: Routledge, 1994), 198 pp. We have come through a long and bloody century, and something new is stirring everywhere. —Václav Havel, quoted in Michael Novak, The Most Religious Century “I am addressing myself here to God, the only one I...

... with the political and moral heritage of the Enlightenment—with the least common denominator of Mill and Marx, Trotsky and Whitman, William James and Václav Havel. Typically, we Deweyans are sentimentally patriotic about America—willing to grant that it could slide into fascism at any time, but proud of its past...