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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
An important booklet for its conveyed strong message. Get outraged at injustice and as a corollary “get involved” and committed to the just causes. Yes, indeed - there is an obvious need to support the ideals of justice peace, freedom, equality, as well as the preservation of humankind in a life-friendly environment, and this is more than a timely challenge. Just look around you, and you may see a world in turmoil. It needs confirmed heroes of the kind of Stéphane Hessel to promote such a motivating statement, to generate new human mindsets and associated behaviors. That is, in my humble opinion, the whole value of this influencer book. I will continue to occasionally read it like a breviary, so to say - a meditation prayer in the morning.
Wie beschreibt man ein so kurzes aber so wortgewaltiges Buch: Mir wird es wohl kaum gelingen... Ein Buch, wie ich finde, dass man gelesen haben muss und das mit nur 32 Seiten dahingehend wohl auch kein Problem darstellen sollte. Jedoch vermag Hessel auf so wenigen Seiten uns zu erinnern, dass der Kampf nicht vorbei ist und wir nie vergessen dürfen, dass es noch immer viele Probleme (die gierige Finanzwelt, die Unterdrückung der Schwächsten, der Klimawandel und vieles mehr) gibt, die wir angehen müssen und das wir nicht aufhören sollen uns zu wehren. Ein faszinierender Text von einem unglaublich faszinierenden Mann. 100% lesenswert!
ko ljudje, ki so bili na oblasti (ali blizu nje), navadnim smrtnikom solijo pamet, kaj in kako je v kriznih časih treba spremeniti...
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Ein sehr kurzes Pamphlet, welches in seiner Ausführung viel zu schwammig bleibt. Erst redet er von der französischen Resistánce, macht dann einen kurzen philosophischen Einführungskurs und UN-Gründung, schwenkt über zu Palästina und Nazideutschland, um uns letztendlich mit der Formel "»Neues schaffen heißt Widerstand leisten. Widerstand leisten heißt Neues schaffen.« alleine zu lassen.
Empört euch? Ja, vor allem über vergeudete 15 Minuten.
2/5
Empört euch? Ja, vor allem über vergeudete 15 Minuten.
2/5
I just don't get all of the hype. The author deserves our respect, for sure, and he has important points to make. But the writing is disjointed and the arguments are conclusory. If you are expecting a short but inspiring bit of counter-culture motivation, you would do better watching an old West WIng episode. Picture an old guy in a bar drunkenly yelling, "You young kids need to get mad about something! Back in my day we didn't just sit around and whine! Socialism is good! Help the poor! Equality! Liberty! Get up and do something about it!"
OK, actually my little speech there may have been better than the author's essay in this booklet.
He has street cred, and I'd love to hear more detailed and coherent stories from his younger days, but I have no clue why this booklet has become an instant cult classic. It is terrible.
OK, actually my little speech there may have been better than the author's essay in this booklet.
He has street cred, and I'd love to hear more detailed and coherent stories from his younger days, but I have no clue why this booklet has become an instant cult classic. It is terrible.
Want to read "Harry's Last Stand" but only have twenty minutes to spare? Then try this.
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Interesante é coñecer a visión tan reaccionaria dun señor da idade de Stéphane Hessel e comprobar que mantén intacto o espírito de loita (e de clases). Moi boa traducción. Libro rápido de ler e de dixestión lenta.
If you are not angry, you are not paying attention. It is not the MAGAs or the woke, it is the interests of the wealthy and powerful and their rejection of the postwar consensus that all men and women are equal.
The language is a throwback (reminds me of E.B. White on Democracy). But it is straightforward, direct, and correct. If you disagree with Hessel, you are likely wrong, not just because he escaped two concentration camps, participated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or was a member of the Resistance in France.
Hessel isn’t even right because he was 93 and seen everything. He is right because for most of those 93 years he was awake and cared deeply about *all* humans.
Do you?
Aux armes, les citoyens!
The language is a throwback (reminds me of E.B. White on Democracy). But it is straightforward, direct, and correct. If you disagree with Hessel, you are likely wrong, not just because he escaped two concentration camps, participated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or was a member of the Resistance in France.
Hessel isn’t even right because he was 93 and seen everything. He is right because for most of those 93 years he was awake and cared deeply about *all* humans.
Do you?
Aux armes, les citoyens!