The Power of the Powerless Paperback / softback
by Vaclav Havel
Paperback / softback
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Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite!
Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union.
A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:27/09/2018
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- ISBN:9781784875046
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:27/09/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784875046