The Power Of The Powerless
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Author | : Vaclav Havel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315487357 |
Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.
Author | : Václav Havel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Gaventa |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252009853 |
Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.
Author | : Jürgen Moltmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780334012788 |
A collection of Juergen Moltmann's sermons on the themes of power and powerlessness."
Author | : Jeffrey C. Goldfarb |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226301117 |
Political change doesn’t always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power. In The Politics of Small Things, Jeffrey Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.
Author | : Matthew Cody |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-10-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375893539 |
Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and they’re kids! Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice—but odd—new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly do good in the town, but they’re haunted by the fact that the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will disappear—along with any memory that they ever had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping their powers? The answers lie in a long-ago meteor strike, a World War II–era comic book (Fantastic Futures, starring the first superhero, Johnny Noble), the green-flamed Witch Fire, a hidden Shroud cave, and—possibly, unbelievably—“powerless” regular-kid Daniel himself. Superhero kids meet comic book mystery in this action-filled debut about the true meaning of a hero.
Author | : Michael Parenti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Václav Havel |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802133076 |
Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.
Author | : Clive Y. Thomas |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0853457441 |
Argues that another form of development — by the poor and for the poor — is not only possible but necessary.
Author | : Václav Havel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Authors, Czech |
ISBN | : 9780571165216 |
Virtually everything Vaclav Havel has ever written has acquired a new resonance, whether ironic, artistic, philosophical or political, since he became President of his country in 1989. This selection of his prose ranges in time from the early 1960s to his New Year message of 1990.