Edited by veteran Czech diplomat and senior religion scholar Glenn
Hughes, The Presence of the Past presents new insights from a
conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and
Diplomacy at Florida International University, in cooperation with
the Czech non-profit organization Post Bellum and the Vaclav Havel
Library. Its fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to
retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and
discussed both theoretically and in terms of current
action-oriented public discourse. The distinguished group of
philosophers, theologians, political scientists, historians,
journalists, and political activists who contributed to this volume
share their perspectives on pressing issues in the modern world, at
the nexus of politics and philosophy. This book's most central goal
is to bring together those who are used to operating in the realm
of ideas, in the so-called "ivory tower," and those who work on the
ground-sharp observers of human matters, trained to study them from
different perspectives and exposed in their daily lives to the
practical problems connected with our capacities of memory,
individual or collective. The aim of this dialogue and
communication is to open a path to a new beginning. A postscript
tries to demonstrate that such an encounter is truly possible; that
it can even be productive, and make a good deal of sense.
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