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Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Freie Universiteat, Berlin, 1992.
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This book reconstructs, through texts by Agnes Heller and international scholars, a timely conversation between Hannah Arendt and Heller on the malaises of modernity. This valuable work will be appreciated…
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John Grumley
Concise student introduction to political philosopher Agnes Heller that covers the development of her thinking over several decades.
Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller’s most recent essays on aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception and embodiment in the context of the continuing…
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This collection examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe. Heller went on to develop one of the…
Agnes Heller
This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the…
Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China. These masterful essays…
First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem of conscience, has been seldom discussed by…
This book, first published in 1984, examines the politics and philosophy of ordinary men and women, and their ordinary transactions. It analyses the interaction between the individual and the social…
Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon, Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man…
This work covers the Shakespearean ouvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare’s historical dramas reflect issues and reveal puzzles which were later taken up by philosophy proper.
A social and philosophical analysis of the nature of modernity which explores its vulnerability in terms of the challenges to the political, economic and moral institutions in the late 20th…
This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes…
A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller’s intellectual and academic career. It traces the development of ideas and gives a thorough account of some…
A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytical, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pursues the…
This authoritative survey traces the development of LukAcs’ thought from his conversion to Marxism to his renunciation of History and Class Consciousness, from his remarkably fertile ‘essay period’ to the…
From Marx’s varying and passing interpretations of a theory of need, Agnes Heller unravels the main tendencies and demonstrates the importance which Marx attached to the restructuring of a system…
This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche…
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Lucy Jane Ward
In this book, Lucy Jane Ward argues that although contemporary scholarship tends to divide Agnes Heller’s work chronologically in terms of her Marxist and subsequent post-Marxist periods, a closer reading…
This collection of lectures by world-renowned philosopher Agnes Heller, edited and introduced by John Grumley, covers a range of political and cultural issues, from the highly topical to modern classics.
In the age of the war on terror and what one critic has called ‘disaster capitalism’, the topic of trauma has assumed renewed cultural relevance.
Ferenc Feher,Heller Agnes
Doomsday or Deterrence? argues against the majority of premises and conclusions of the antinuclear argument as existed in 1986 when this study was first published. This title will be of…
Ferenc Feher,Agnes Heller
This book, first published in 1983, is a radical reinterpretation of the Hungarian revolution in the context of world politics and Eastern Europe as a whole. It examines the events…
Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller
Agnes Heller,Riccardo Mazzeo
In Wind and Whirlwind Agnes Heller and Riccardo Mazzeo analyse utopias and dystopias in the works of philosophers and novelists and highlight the importance to find one’s way avoiding the…
Agnes Heller,Ferenc Feher
Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China
This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the ‘warm’ metaphysics of beauty and the ‘cold’ one modeled on Plato’s Janus-faced relationship…
Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller’s reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of…
Bethania Assy,Professor Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research)
Arendt understands morality not in terms of maxims or moral principles, neither in their abstract nor in their relativistic acceptation. There is an original question raised by Arendt that has…
Claire Nyblom
Justice is a cultural and historical constant, characterized by plurality and incommensurate theories. This book identifies regulative and critical dimensions in the works of Kant, Hegel, Heller, and Honneth. The…
