Flagg Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Flagg Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Flagg |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interview with Waller R. Newell
On Czech Dissent
Post-Totalitarianism inThe Lives of Others
This article argues that The Lives of Others contains a particularly powerful portrait of what the Czech dissident–philosopher Václav Havel called “post-totalitarianism.” I will explore Havel's understanding of this concept and the film's evocation of its key features. In Havel's view, these regimes preserve themselves through the principle of “social auto-totality.” They make every person, every citizen, an accomplice in their own oppression. Ev…
Russia, the West, and the Problem of Modern Revolution
Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz is known either as author of The Captive Mind(1953) or as the accomplished poet and Nobel laureate (1980). Little effort has been made to connect the beautiful and penetrating poet and essayist, so well known in literary circles, with the most astute analyst of the seduction of intellectuals by Communism, so essential for political scientists and historians. It is argued here that there is a remarkable unity of purpose and continui…
Books in review
Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz is known either as author of The Captive Mind(1953) or as the accomplished poet and Nobel laureate (1980). Little effort has been made to connect the beautiful and penetrating poet and essayist, so well known in literary circles, with the most astute analyst of the seduction of intellectuals by Communism, so essential for political scientists and historians. It is argued here that there is a remarkable unity of purpose and continui…
Books in review
Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz is known either as author of The Captive Mind(1953) or as the accomplished poet and Nobel laureate (1980). Little effort has been made to connect the beautiful and penetrating poet and essayist, so well known in literary circles, with the most astute analyst of the seduction of intellectuals by Communism, so essential for political scientists and historians. It is argued here that there is a remarkable unity of purpose and continui…
Russia, the West, and the Problem of Modern Revolution
Post-Totalitarianism inThe Lives of Others
This article argues that The Lives of Others contains a particularly powerful portrait of what the Czech dissident–philosopher Václav Havel called “post-totalitarianism.” I will explore Havel's understanding of this concept and the film's evocation of its key features. In Havel's view, these regimes preserve themselves through the principle of “social auto-totality.” They make every person, every citizen, an accomplice in their own oppression. Ev…
On Czech Dissent
Interview with Waller R. Newell
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Communism (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work)