The Sacred and the Myth: Havel’s Greengrocer, Twenty Years Later
This essay juxtaposes two thinkers: the French literary critic and philosopher René Girard (1923?2015) and the Czech playwright, essayist, and dissident Václav Havel (1936?2011). In particular, the text examines Havel?s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless through the lens of Girard?s structuralist...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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East European politics and societies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-293 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
living in truth
B René Girard B Power of the Powerless B Václav Havel |
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