The Power of the Powerless

Author: Vaclav Havel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315487357
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
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.

Václav Havel, Or, Living in Truth

Author: Václav Havel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description

Power and Powerlessness

Author: John Gaventa
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252009853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.

The Power of the Powerless

Author: Jürgen Moltmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780334012788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
A collection of Juergen Moltmann's sermons on the themes of power and powerlessness."

The Politics of Small Things

Author: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301117
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
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.

Powerless

Author: Matthew Cody
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375893539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
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.

Power and the Powerless

Author: Michael Parenti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

The Garden Party and Other Plays

Author: Václav Havel
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802133076
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
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.

The Poor and the Powerless

Author: Clive Y. Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853457441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
Argues that another form of development — by the poor and for the poor — is not only possible but necessary.

Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

Author: David Biale
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307772535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical past": the anachronistic interpretation that the Diaspora, which occurred between the fall of an independent Jewish commonwealth in A.D. 70 and the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, was politically impotent, and, conversely, that the First and Second Temple periods were eras of full Jewish national sovereignty.