http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/288/0 en http://th-rough.eu/writers/peters-eng/life-vaclav-havel-saint-end-history <span class='print-link'></span><blockquote> <div class="rtejustify"> <em>&ldquo;...no one of my generation will ever forget those powerful scenes from Wenceslas Square two decades ago. Havel led the Czech people out of tyranny. And he helped bring freedom and democracy to our entire continent.&rdquo;</em><br /> David Cameron 2011</div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div class="rtejustify"> <br /> <em>
&ldquo;There is no real evidence that Western democracy, that is, democracy of the traditional parliamentary type, can offer solutions that are any more profound. It may even be said that the more room there is in the Western democracies (compared to our world) for the genuine aims of life, the better the crisis is hidden from people and the more deeply do they become immersed in it.&rdquo;</em><br /> Vaclav Havel 1978</div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div class="rtejustify"> &ldquo;...you [Foucault] were the first to teach us a fundamental lesson&hellip; the indignity of speaking for others&rdquo;<br /> Deleuze on Foucault</div> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/peters-eng/life-vaclav-havel-saint-end-history" target="_blank">read more</a></p> peters-eng czech republic Czechoslovakia end of history Vaclav Havel English Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:02:44 +0000 Aaron Peters 248 at http://th-rough.eu