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Article: Aviezer Tucker. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel.
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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Aviezer Tucker. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xii + 295 pp. $20.00 (paper).
WAS IT TOO GOOD to be true when in 1989 the communist government of Czechoslovakia collapsed in a "velvet revolution" with few casualties, and playwright-philosopher and former jailed dissident Vaclav Havel took over as elected president of the new democratic republic? Sadly yes, replies Aviezer Tucker in a somber assessment of the historical roots and the first decade of post-communist rule in a land that soon split into the Czech and Slovak republics.
In a learned study of the ...