Leadership and the ethics of hope: Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17427150241256160" target="_blank" >10.1177/17427150241256160</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Leadership and the ethics of hope: Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Hope as a feature in both authentic and spiritual leadership theory has become a diminished moral concept, departing from its philosophical and theological roots, and distorted by excessive positivity, success, instrumentalization, cultural bias, and ideology. Following Ciulla’s (2014) assertion that biography can do much to inform leadership theory, this paper contributes a richer understanding of hope through the though case of Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia using French existentialist Gabriel Marcel’s ethics of hope. Five elements of Marcel’s philosophy demonstrate hope’s transforming vulnerability amidst technological control, relationship with despair, active presence, creative fidelity, and transcending power in love. Examining Czechoslovakia’s human rights movement through the lens of Marcellian ethics provides insight into the role of absurdity and truth-telling as a precursor to hope, taking responsibility for failure, overcoming fear through the “solidarity of the shaken,” creative fidelity through living in truth and using humor, and love manifesting as sacrifice and openness to seeing one’s contribution to the moral contamination of society under totalitarianism.
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
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Leadership
ISSN
1742-7150
e-ISSN
1742-7169
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
314-333
UT code for WoS article
001334046400003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85207261355