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This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, journalists, and political scientists contextualize, compare and assess different elements of Heller's work; the collection as a whole highlights relevant shifts within that work as well as its intrinsic consistency. Essays in the collection address the relationship between philosophy, political practice and everyday life, Heller's theory of modernity and her ethical theory, her recent scholarship on comedy and the Biblical book of Genesis, her theories of radical needs and radical politics, her aesthetic theory, and questions about her relationship to feminist theory. The collection includes Heller's reflections on the collected essays, as well as an early essay on her mentor LukƔcs that exposes her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and philosophical issues throughout her life's work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editorās Introduction
- Chapter 1. Laudatio for Agnes Heller
- Chapter 2. Marxism and Exile: Reflections On Intellectual Migration
- Chapter 3. Agnes Hellerās Theory of Modernity
- Chapter 4. Why Does Agnes Heller Matter? Political Action, Social Change and Radical Politics in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 5. The Power of Radical Needs
- Chapter 6. Remembrance of Things Future: From Totalitarianism to Fundamentalism
- Chapter 7. Existential Choice: Hellerās Either/Or
- Chapter 8. Narrative Philosophy: An Essay on Agnes Heller
- Chapter 9. To Agnes Heller: An Open Letter on Philosophy and the Real Problem of Woman
- Chapter 10. Loving Fate
- Chapter 11. Agnes Heller as Autobiographer: History and a Myriad of Contexts
- Chapter 12. The Comedy of Philosophy
- Chapter 13. Nietzscheās Thumotic Politics: A Programmatic Statement with an Eye on Agnes Heller
- Chapter 14. From Contingency to Destiny: On Hellerās Existential Ethics
- Chapter 15. Reflections on the Essays Addressed to My Work
- Appendix āVon der Armut am Geisteā: A Dialogue by the Young LukĆ”cs
- Further Reading
- Index
- Contributors