Beyond "The Power of the Powerless": the Political Thought and Polemics of the Czechoslovak Opposition, 1977-1980

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/18763308-50020006" target="_blank" >10.30965/18763308-50020006</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beyond "The Power of the Powerless": the Political Thought and Polemics of the Czechoslovak Opposition, 1977-1980
Original language description
The article focuses on the political thought of the Czechoslovak opposition during the brief period from the creation of Charter 77 to 1980. It analyzes the themes of Václav Havel's essay "The Power of the Powerless" within the context of the political thought of Czechoslovak dissidents. In doing so, it reveals various positions that were highly critical of Havel's formulation of dissent. It is argued that the intellectual discourse of the opposition can be structured according to contentious themes such as the relationship to the impersonal institutions of modern society, the nature of politics and party politics in particular, the meaning and importance of "living in truth," the interpretation of "small-scale work," and the nature of responsibility (moral versus political). This article reveals mutually incompatible intellectual positions which, although unrealized in practice, are not intellectually inferior to canonical texts like Havel's.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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