The political thought of Václav Havel : : philosophical influences and contemporary applications / / by Daniel Brennan.
The book considers Václav Havel’s body of writing as a cohesive whole offering a consistent political philosophy. This bold claim is backed up through a close examination of Havel’s plays, letters, essays and aphorisms. The political philosophy that a close reading of Havel reveals is a liberal one....
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Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series. Central European Value Studies, Volume 295 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017. ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies ;
Volume 295. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Themes in Havel’s Thought
- The Influence of Jan Patočka
- Further Patočkean Ideas in Havel’s Thought
- Living in Truth as an Existential Concept
- Havel’s Concern for Meaningful Political Discourse
- Václav Havel’s Political thought as a Liberal Philosophy
- Havel’s Liberal Agonism
- Conclusion: Havel and the Neoliberal State
- Bibliography
- Index.