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Capitalism with a human face? (Vaclav Havel's philosophy and musings) (Our Queer World)
The Humanist
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May 1, 1994|
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On New Year's Day, 1990, Vaclav Havel, the playwright and human, rights activist who had served time in jail under the previous communist regime, delivered his first major public address as president of Czechoslovakia:
My dear fellow citizens:
For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country flourished, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us.
I assume you did not propose me for this ...
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Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth.
Magazine article from: The Progressive
; ...his former tormentors. All of this suggested to me that Havel was a decent, thoughtful, generous. and compassionate human...by the literate, profound, and humane essays compiled in Havel's Open Letters and Summer Meditations, and in Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth, which includes six pieces by Havel ...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Havel changed a nation.(Editorials)(Playwright-president helped birth Czech Republic)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...than they are in Havel's broad dreams of...overnight into a world of fairy tales...return to earth, Havel said in a recent...into the mundane world of bureaucratic routine...democracy will be Havel's most enduring legacy...Union next year. Havel's country is no longer...voluntary ...
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Aviezer Tucker. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...post-communist elites has marginalized visionaries such as President Havel and bred a corrupt polity, stagnant economy, and culture...Dostoyevsky to Husserl and Heidegger--of Patocka's and Havel's versions of phenomenology. Because this philosophy stresses...inconsistent interpretations of the texts of Patocka ...
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VACLAV HAVEL: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts.(Review)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly
; ...Vaclav Havel to the hall of shame. You may foolishly view Havel as a playwright, spirited dissident, and democratic hero to a peace-loving nation. Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts reveals the shocking underside. Havel drinks too much, smokes too much, had too much sex, is...this man ...
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The Politics of Hope and Optimism: Rorty, Havel, and the Democratic Faith of John Dewey(*).(Vaclav Havel, Richard Rorty)
Magazine article from: Social Research
; ...essay The End of Leninism, Havel, and Social Hope, Rorty asks...positive outlook toward the world that resembles more what might...essay The End of Leninism, Havel and Social Hope. I refer here...and the newer entrant Vaclav Havel. Both figures are appropriate...their solution. Alternatively, ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC: CZECH COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE REPORTS TO HAVEL ON 'POLICE DESTABILIZATION'.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...has submitted a secret report to President Havel on possible attempts to destabilize elite police squads. Havel had requested that the BIS conduct an investigation...Presidential spokesman Ladislav Spacek said Havel is convinced that the results of the investigation...
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Velvet president: why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more.
Magazine article from: Reason
; ...time, the one man in the world of the living who could...accomplished life. Vaclav Havel, the 66-year-old former...whose engagement with the world led him to master the nonfiction...dictatorships. Unlike Orwell, Havel lived long enough to enjoy...
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Even as the world's volume car makers struggle to deal with a serious slump in sales as a result of the global economic recession, the market for supercars in the Middle East is booming. Stephen Williams explains why and offers his thoughts on some of the finest cars money can buy.(DETAILS: Supercars)(Buyers guide)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...situation in Europe, and indeed around the world, is just as bad, with job losses and assembly...speculators at bay. That was the case with the world's most expensive road car, the Bugatti...edition. Invitations went out around the world for potential customers for this carbon-titani...
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Joseph Havel: Museum of Fine Arts.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; Joseph Havel's recent sculpture seamlessly melds compositional...the commercial fabricator's cuboid boxes, Havel gently nudges their contents to produce...pinned to the wall, each one reading JOSEPH HAVEL and BRUISED, as if they were designer brand...
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CZECH REPUBLIC: FORMER PRESIDENT SUFFERING FROM PNEUMONIA.(Vaclav Havel )(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; According to Prague Post , former President Vaclav Havel is again battling a bout of pneumonia. Doctors said Havel's illness was not severe and that he was resting at home.
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