Václav Havel's Search for Emancipatory Governmentality
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F23%3A10469037" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/23:10469037 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ek6TL2oYMq" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ek6TL2oYMq</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2262342" target="_blank" >10.1080/14409917.2023.2262342</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Václav Havel's Search for Emancipatory Governmentality
Original language description
This paper deals with the political philosophy of Václav Havel, mainly its relation to ethics and what Michel Foucault called governmentality. Besides using his analytical framework, Foucault's politics are engaged with to highlight similar trajectories of two intellectuals dealing with related dilemmas of ethics and politics. As a dissident of communist Czechoslovakia Havel, developed a profound critique of modernity, but also discovered technologies of the self, exclusive to dissidents, which empowered them in their moral struggle against the regime. The Velvet Revolution in 1989 ascended Havel to the presidency of the republic, a position from which he quickly embraced and disseminated neoliberal governmentality. The final section deals with Havel's use of human rights in the later years of his presidency, being a justification for military interventions and comparing them to Foucault's conceptualisation of rights. Human rights discourse is the culmination of Havel's lifelong quest for the ethical foundation of politics and it is the source of most difficulties and potentialities associated with this project.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Critical Horizons
ISSN
1440-9917
e-ISSN
1568-5160
Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
298-315
UT code for WoS article
001075336700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173909391