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The art of the impossible : politics as morality in practice : speeches and writings, 1990-1996
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The art of the impossible : politics as morality in practice : speeches and writings, 1990-1996

著者： Václav Havel
出版商： New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997.
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There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to
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Havel, Václav.
Art of the impossible.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997
(OCoLC)645842277
文件类型： 书
所有的著者/提供者： Václav Havel
ISBN: 0679451064 9780679451068 0676970494 9780676970494
OCLC号码： 36066095
注意： Many of the selections in this work were first published in the Czech Republic as part of Toward a civil society in 1994 and other selections were originally published in different forms in numerous magazines.
Includes index.
描述： xix, 273 p. ; 22 cm.
责任： by Václav Havel ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson and others.
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There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speech-writers. Instead he assumes the additional burden - for him, it is a distinct pleasure - of composing all of his oratory.

This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it. He describes how his country and the other post-communist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. And he reminds us that - contrary to all appearances - common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience are not alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.

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