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The Price of Velvet: Thomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel
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Abstract Contrasts the philosophies of Tomas G. Masaryk & Vaclav Havel, the men who led the Czech Velvet Revolution in 1918 & 1989. Masaryk opposed a regime he would not fully reject until later in life, whereas Havel opposed an indisputably repulsive regime. For this reason, Masaryk sought deeper reasons fo... mehr
Contrasts the philosophies of Tomas G. Masaryk & Vaclav Havel, the men who led the Czech Velvet Revolution in 1918 & 1989. Masaryk opposed a regime he would not fully reject until later in life, whereas Havel opposed an indisputably repulsive regime. For this reason, Masaryk sought deeper reasons for the revolution & legitimated the renewal of the Czech state with his philosophy of history. Positing that the world evolved from theocracy to democracy, Masaryk argued that the Czechs initially provided the impetus for the shift dcuring the fifteenth-century Hussite movement, lost touch with the democratization process after the Battle on the White Mountain in 1620, & returned to the mainstream of European history in their fight against absolutism. Masaryk's faith in the meaning & strength of democracy was subsequently destroyed by the Munich Agreement. Havel, by contrast, based his politcal vision not on the philosophy of history, but on belief in democratic values. Both men have accepted a rather high level of continuity with the overturned political structures, which may be the price of a 'velvet' approach to political revolution.... weniger
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Geschichte
Freie Schlagwörter
Intellectual History; Political Philosophy; Presidents; Democracy; Czech Republic; political philosophy, Czech Tomas G. Masaryk vs Vaclav Havel, 1918-1989;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
1995
Seitenangabe
S. 45-57
Zeitschriftentitel
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 3 (1995) 1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung