Sign in with Facebook
106 books
—
4 voters
Havel Books
Showing 1-12 of 12
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as havel)
avg rating 4.19 — 574 ratings — published 1986
Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as havel)
avg rating 4.29 — 439 ratings — published 1991
To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as havel)
avg rating 3.90 — 327 ratings — published 2006
Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy In Six Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as havel)
avg rating 3.62 — 64 ratings — published 1999
Summer Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 4.15 — 338 ratings — published 1991
Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 4.38 — 213 ratings — published 1986
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,183 ratings — published 1990
Reading Václav Havel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Václav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2004
The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 4.32 — 112 ratings — published 1997
Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 3.96 — 73 ratings — published 1993
The Garden Party and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as havel)
avg rating 3.86 — 532 ratings — published 1967
“Everyone we encounter is facing an unceasing succession of choices in their own arrangements of unique circumstances, applying their own combinations of values.
When people are sovereign together, they generate unpredictability.
And as they do, they recognize this in one another, welcome it, and gain from it. When we apprehend others are "leib", we see them doing what we are doing: making choices in the zone between the world of things and the world of values.
Working together, people bring human unpredictability into the world - and joyfully. This helps us to be free of all the people and forces that would rule us by predicting us - or by making us more predictable.
Free people are predictable to themselves but unpredictable to authorities and machines.
Unfree people are unpredictable to themselves and predictable to rulers.
Such unpredictability allows us to become free, together. The texture of the world of values enters our own world.”
― On Freedom
When people are sovereign together, they generate unpredictability.
And as they do, they recognize this in one another, welcome it, and gain from it. When we apprehend others are "leib", we see them doing what we are doing: making choices in the zone between the world of things and the world of values.
Working together, people bring human unpredictability into the world - and joyfully. This helps us to be free of all the people and forces that would rule us by predicting us - or by making us more predictable.
Free people are predictable to themselves but unpredictable to authorities and machines.
Unfree people are unpredictable to themselves and predictable to rulers.
Such unpredictability allows us to become free, together. The texture of the world of values enters our own world.”
― On Freedom
“The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel]”
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
