The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World In this postmodern world, cultural conflicts are becoming more dangerous than any time in history. A new model of coexistence is needed, based on man's transcending himself. By Vaclav Havel There are thinkers who claim that, if the modern age began with the discovery of America, it also ended in America. This is said to have occurred in the year ...

The Czech president is the product of a culture whose artists and intellectuals have for fifty years been remarkable for their courageous commitment to democratic government for the sake of the common good.