The power of the powerless

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Sinopse

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

Participantes

Autor: Vaclav Havel

Autor

TIMOTHY SNYDER

Timothy Snyder é professor em Yale e membro do Instituto de Ciências Humanas em Viena. É autor, entre outros, de Terras de sangue: a Europa entre Hitler e Stálin (2010), vencedor de doze prêmios, e teve sua obra traduzida para trinta idiomas.