The legacy of Václav Havel has only grown more relevant since his passing in 2011. His writings and speeches continue to resonate globally in the face of threats to democracy, freedom, and the environment. This book goes deeper than any before into the enduring meaning of Havel's legacy, by exploring key words he used as playwright, dissident and president: appeal, truth, power, responsibility, indifference, home, hotspot, theatre, prison, civil society. How might we understand these words as intellectual touchstones around which Havel's larger message took shape? How does Havel's perspective on these concepts speak to us meaningfully in the here and now? The ten contributors are drawn from a range of countries and use the methodological tools of several disciplines: political science and political philosophy, historical and cultural analysis, discourse/textual analysis, and linguistic-corpus analysis.