Critical theories and the Budapest School : politics, culture, modernity / edited by Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pickle, Jonathan, editor.

Rundell, John F., editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 128.

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heller, Ágnes--Political and social views.

Heller, Ágnes.

Márkus, Mária--Political and social views.

Márkus, Mária.

Márkus, György, 1934-2016--Political and social views.

Márkus, György.

Fehér, Ferenc, 1933-1994--Political and social views.

Fehér, Ferenc.

Fehér, Ferenc, 1933-1994.

Márkus, György, 1934-2016.

Critical theory--Hungary.

Critical theory.

Political and social views.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

xii, 293 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: the Budapest School and its legacies : migration, modernity, philosophy / Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell

A school? : or its homecoming in migration

The Budapest School : travelling theory? / Peter Beilharz

Learning from the Budapest School women / Pauline Johnson

Criticism and aesthetics : Ferenc Fehér's views on art / Sandor Radnoti

From critique of totalitarianism to critique of political modernity

The Budapest School on totalitarianism : toward a new version of critical theory / Waldemar Bulira

The critical power of needs : the radical potential in Márkus' and Heller's philosophical anthropology / Aaron Jaffe

Praxis beyond the political : György Márkus contra Hannah Arendt / Jonathan Pickle

Pathways to the "open utopia" : Heller and Fehér on Lukács' messianic marxism / Michael Gardiner

Adventures in biopolitics / John Grumley

The absolute present of historical consciousness : Ágnes Heller between the postmodern and the contemporary / David Roberts

Critical theories of the Budapest School : reflections on Márkus and Heller

Philosophy in the times of late modernity : reflections on György Márkus' culture, science, society / Janos Kis

Ágnes Heller's theory of action : the incompleteness of the human being / John Rundell

Ágnes Heller and the Kantian imaginary / Marcia Morgan

Existential choice as existential comedy : Ágnes Heller's Wager / Katie Terezakis

The comic political condition : Ágnes Heller's philosophy of laughter and liberty / Peter Murphy

The image of the "good friend" in Heller : a bridge between everyday life and transcendence / Sergio Mariscal

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138203020

1138203025

OCLC:

1005057448