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After thoughts : beyond the 'system' : political and cultural lectures / by Agnes Heller ; edited and with an introduction by John Grumley.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Heller, Ágnes, author.
Contributor:
Grumley, John E., editor, writer of introduction.
Series:
Social and Critical Theory; volume 24.
Social and Critical Theory; volume 24
Standardized Title:
Lectures. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Civilization, Modern.
Philosophy.
Political science--Philosophy.
Political science.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (182 pages)
Place of Publication:
Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Summary:
"This book is a collection of recent lectures by Agnes Heller, delivered all over the world. These essays are edited and introduced by the author of the most significant intellectual biography of her work, John Grumley. In these lectures, Heller engages one of her greatest strengths: to discover philosophy within the very flux of contemporary events. These bring together such timely topics as refugees, human rights, truth in politics and the contemporary university as well as perennial issues like the possibility of artistic representation of the Holocaust, the question whether revolutions are always betrayed, and the possibility of universality in the contemporary multicultural world".
Contents:
Are all revolutions betrayed?
Truth in politics
Progress, regress and human rights
Cosmopolitanism as philosophy, refuge, and destiny
Are there obligations without rights?
On the concept of 'care'
In praise of imperfection
Is representation of the Holocaust possible?
Past, present and future of universities
Is the language of philosophy in a state of crisis?
Reflections on the dynamics of personal identity in modernity
The 'end of philosophy' (four times) or Karl Marx as a German philosopher
Nietzsche on dreams
What went wrong with the religion of reason?
De libero arbitrio (On free choice of the will)
Fathers and sons in the Bible
Infinity as concept and as imagination.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
ISBN:
90-04-42038-X
OCLC:
1130905235
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004420380 DOI

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