1989 in Czechoslovakia through Arendt’s Eyes: An Immodern Non-revolution

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Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr

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This essay examines the status of events of 1989 in Czechoslovakia from an Arendtian perspective, focusing on whether they qualify as a revolution or even, precisely speaking, a modern event. For Arendt, revolutions are decidedly modern in that they expand freedom to all equally, an expansion conceivable because history can be thought of as rectilinear and because new ideas can be introduced into the secular world. Leaving aside the importance of violence as a criterion, we nd that 1989 in Czechoslovakia does not live up to her other criteria, nor does it make sense to call it either modern or post- modern. We thus claim that it is an ‘immodern’, non-revolutionary event. In concluding, we nd that its immodernity is why it failed to be a revolution.

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Plush revolution, Plush revolution, Hana Arent, Revolution, Modern, Postmodern

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57832

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Sociološki Pregled

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https://doi.org/10.5937/socpreg53-23061

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Department of Philosophy, Article

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J. E. C. Grıffıth, “1989 in Czechoslovakia through Arendt’s Eyes: An Immodern Non-revolution,” Sociološki Pregled, pp. 787–811, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57832.