%0 Journal Article
%T Ideology as Performance in The Power of the Powerless
%A David S. Danaher
%J East European Politics and Societies
%@ 1533-8371
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0888325417742490
%X While ideology is a central concept in V¨¢clav Havel¡¯s master essay, at no point does he operate with a standard definition of the term. Instead, Havel ¡°defines¡± ideology in metaphorical and performative terms, reframing our understanding of its meaning and power in the modern world by focusing on its pre-political operation. This point has yet to be appreciated by scholars of Havel. To better understand the import of Havel¡¯s approach, this essay details metaphorical contexts for ideology in The Power of the Powerless and draws connections to ideological performativity in Havel¡¯s plays from the 1970s as well as in the cinema of the Czech New Wave
%K V¨¢clav Havel
%K ideology
%K performativity
%K cinema
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325417742490