This interview from 1991 profiles Ladislav Hejdanek, a leading Czech philosopher and former dissident who spent decades in manual labor—working as a night watchman and stoker—while organizing clandestine seminars under the communist regime. As a key signatory of Charter 77, Hejdanek stood apart from many of his peers who entered high-ranking political offices after the Velvet Revolution. Instead, he chose to remain in academia, asserting that his primary responsibility was to philosophy rather than amateur politics. During this discussion in Barcelona, Hejdanek explains his unique philosophical framework, which reinterprets faith and the concept of God as an "adventive" or coming reality rather than a static metaphysical entity. He also shares critical perspectives on the rising nationalism in post-communist Central Europe and the potential dissolution of Czechoslovakia. He emphasizes that a nation's true survival and significance depend on its cultural and linguistic vitality and intellectual rigor, rather than political segregation or ideological myths.