{"id":92,"date":"2025-06-14T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:38:34","slug":"ep-4-vaclav-havel-and-living-in-truth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/episodes\/ep-4-vaclav-havel-and-living-in-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 4 &#8211; Vaclav Havel and living in truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the second episode focusing on truth, and it takes a rather different route than the last oneon hannah Arendt. Vaclav Havel, also, isn&#8217;t a typical theorist but certainly a very political thinker. His take on truth really approaches the question of how to live under circumstances that just seem wrong and how to maybe find the cracks that will eventually open new possibilities. And Havel speaks from experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links and Literature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The full text of &#8220;The power of the Powerless&#8221; can be found here  <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/the-power-of-the-powerless\">https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/the-power-of-the-powerless<\/a>, but if you care for the short introduction by Timothy Snyder (it is worth reading) this might be your source:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaclav Havel 2018: The Power of the Powerless (with an introduction by Timothy Snyder). Vintage Classics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the link to the event with Mariann Edgar Budde in May2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_-CzbBXTNoX8\"><div id=\"lyte_-CzbBXTNoX8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-CzbBXTNoX8%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-CzbBXTNoX8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-CzbBXTNoX8%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><br\/><span class=\"lyte_disclaimer\">ACHTUNG: Daten nach YouTube werden erst beim Abspielen des Videos \u00fcbertragen.<\/span><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally some historical starting point: &#8220;Declaration of Charter 77,&#8221; in World History Commons, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/declaration-charter-77\">https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/declaration-charter-77<\/a> [accessed June 14, 2025]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fotographic Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaclav Havel 1965 by Jaroslav Krej\u010d\u00ed, CC-BY-SA, via https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Vaclav_Havel_1965.jpg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second episode focusing on truth, and it takes a rather different route than the last oneon hannah Arendt. Vaclav Havel, also, isn&#8217;t a typical theorist but certainly a very political thinker. His take on truth really approaches the question of how to live under circumstances that just seem wrong and how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/episodes\/ep-4-vaclav-havel-and-living-in-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ep 4 &#8211; Vaclav Havel and living in truth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/97"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/andnowwhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}