by Stéphane Hessel · tapa dura · ISBN 9789896572082
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«Empenhai-vos!» is a political essay by Stéphane Hessel in conversation with Gilles Vanderpooten, published by Planeta in hardcover (104 pages, in Portuguese).
Hessel, a survivor of Buchenwald and Dora and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, explains that indignation drove the Resistance and calls for maintaining it in the face of inequalities, the ecological crisis, the treatment of immigrants and the power of financial markets. He proposes a peaceful insurrection and networked action.
The original work, «Indignez-vous !», appeared in French in 2010; this Portuguese edition was published in 2011.
Aimed at readers interested in political philosophy, activism and the legacy of the French Resistance.
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
