书籍介绍
这本书最颠覆常识之处,在于它彻底改写了“权力”与“被统治者”之间的关系。哈维尔提出:后极权制度并非仅靠暴力维持,而是靠每个普通人自愿在谎言中生存来支撑的。花店老板把“全世界劳动者联合起来”的标语挂在橱窗,并非出于信仰,只是怕惹麻烦——正是这无数微小的、不自知的妥协,构筑了整个体制的根基。由此,反抗不再是少数英雄对政权的正面冲锋,而回归为每个个体“活在真实中”:拒绝点赞、拒绝表演、坚持说真话。这一判断既令人不安又赋予人力量:既然制度仰仗我们的共谋,那么挣脱也只需从自己开始。它尤其适合那些对宏大政治叙事感到疏离、却又不愿自我麻痹的读者——它不提供革命方案,而是逼你重新审视日常生活中每一处沉默的代价。
作者简介
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovakia. After the Prague Spring, he became increasingly active. In 1977, his involvement with the human rights manifesto Charter 77 brought him international fame as the leader of the opposition in Czechoslovakia; it also led to his imprisonment. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" launched Havel into the presidency. In this role he led Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to multi-party democracy. His thirteen years in office saw radical change in his nation, including its split with Slovakia, which Havel opposed, its accession into NATO and start of the negotiations for membership in the European Union, which was attained in 2004.