What Form of Existentialism is there in Havel's Concept of Dissent?
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<a href="https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/cz/mimoradna-cisla/76-niklas-forsberg-ulrika-bj-rk-eds-the-dissident" target="_blank" >https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/cz/mimoradna-cisla/76-niklas-forsberg-ulrika-bj-rk-eds-the-dissident</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2021.4s14" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2021.4s14</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
What Form of Existentialism is there in Havel's Concept of Dissent?
Original language description
The Czech dissident movement included thinkers who searched for a morally pure, parallel polis, and who felt comfortable within its isolation. The philosophers of Charter 77 ( Jan Patocka and Ladislav Hejdanek especially), by contrast, rejected the idea of being morally superior to their opponents. It is interesting to consider where Vaclav Havel stands at this crossroads. Havel very much cooperated with the above-mentioned philosophers and was inspired by them in his own writing and agency. On the other hand, Havel undoubtedly performed a certain moral-existential concept of dissent. In this paper I examine Havel's existential concept. In particular, after distinguishing between two existential approaches in Havel's writings, I analyse two fundamental philosophical critiques of Havel in the work of Ladislav Hejdanek. According to Hejdanek, Havel 1) identifies intellectuals with non-politicians, i.e. he is governed by the incorrect dualism of the political versus the non-political, and 2) is self-focused and moralising, i.e. he keeps too much within his own self (subjectivity) and ""a given"" (existent, objective) world. Given this critique, I will systematise Hejdanek's objections and suggested solutions. In the first case, I see the solution in a more detailed distinction: we should distinguish between politics and non-politics (intellectuals) but also non-political politics. In the second case, we should look for the essence (focal point) of man not in his morality but outside it: man should orient himself ""out of his self"".
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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
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Filosofický časopis
ISSN
0015-1831
e-ISSN
2570-9232
Volume of the periodical
70
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
14-34
UT code for WoS article
000773983900002
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