Havel Through Polish Eyes
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: February 18, 2015, 17:00 – 19:00
The lecture by PhDr. Libor Martínek Ph.D. from the University of Wroclaw will focus on the reception of the personality and works of Václav Havel in Polish academic circles.
Václav Havel’s image as an intellectual, playwright, essayist and statesman among the Polish intelligentsia. Thanks to his positions and philosophy – and in the broader context his work as an artist – Havel was an undisputed intellectual and moral authority in Poland. Not only as symbol of the political changes in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe but above all as a thinker who sparked similar interest in intellectual circles to that generated by T.G. Masaryk in his day. How are Havel’s thoughts, particularly on Europe and Russia, viewed in today in a period of parallel crises?