Engaging Agnes Heller : a critical companion / edited by Katie Terezakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Terezakis, Katie, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Hungarian--20th century.

Philosophy, Hungarian.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Heller, Ágnes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and developing insightful analyses of a vast range of topics. Here, philosophers, sociologists, journalists and political scientists assess different elements of Heller's work, highlight relevant shifts within that work, and address its intrinsic consistency.

Contents:

Editor's introduction / Katie Terezakis

Laudatio for Agnes Heller / Yirmiyahu Yovel

Marxism and exile : reflections on intellectual migration / Bryan S. Turner

Agnes Heller's theory of modernity / Peter Beilharz

Why does Agnes Heller matter? : political action, social change, and radical politics in the twenty-first century / Simon Tormey

The power of radical needs / Anthony Kammas

Remembrance of things future : from totalitarianism to fundamentalism / Kira Brunner Don

Existential choice : Heller's either/or / Richard J. Bernstein

Narrative philosophy : an essay on Agnes Heller / János Boros

To Agnes Heller : an open letter on philosophy and the real problem of woman / Katie Terezakis

Loving fate / Amos Friedland

Agnes Heller as autobiographer : history and a myriad of contexts / Preben Kaarsholm

The comedy of philosophy / Dmitri Nikulin

Nietzsche's thumotic politics : a programmatic statement with an eye on Agnes Heller / Horst Hutter

From contingency to destiny : on Heller's existential ethics / John Grumley

Reflections on the essays addressed to my work / Agnes Heller

"Von der Armut am Geiste" : a dialogue by the young Lukács / Agnes Heller.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-28211-2

0-7391-2257-6

1-4616-3334-6

OCLC:

862049742