The Shaman and the Greengrocer: Revisiting Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”
Humanities Bldg, Room 365Václav Havel’s idea of “living in truth” has become a catchphrase in discussions of East Central European dissent during the Cold War. Behind this seemingly straightforward idea, however, were many competing ideas about what the truth is, how we can know it, and how we might “live in” it. Havel’s own accounts of “living in...