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A Critical Companion
This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, t...
"Can Modernity Survive? is bound to become the centre and the starting point of all future discourse on modernity."--Zygmunt Bauman...
A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytical, and historical perspectives. It beg...
The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homog...
This is a philosophical guide to the post-modern historical consciousness. In the post modern age, Agnes Heller argues, we see outselves as dwellers i...
Political and Cultural Lectures by Agnes Heller
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 th...
Written by one of the most influential figures in post-World-War-II social thought, A Theory of Modernity is a comprehensive analysis of the main dyna...
Essays
Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature a...
Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and ...
The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of need What are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upon ...
"1989 marked not only the end of communism but also the beginning of a drastic change of pattern in modern politics. The authors analyse an emerging n...
The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
"Immortal Comedy is the first book to "think" philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. This book is a deep meditation on the subject of ...
Shakespeare as Philosopher of History
The Time Is Out of Joint presents an examination of Shakespeare's distinctly modern confrontation with time and temporality, the difference between th...
A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces th...
This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a hu...
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book th...
A Rational Perspective
First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem...
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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. Trau...
The Message of a Revolution โ A Quarter of a Century After
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...
The Politics of the Body, Race and Nature
The presest volume is a collection of papers given at a conference on "Biopolitics. The Politics of the Body, Race and Nature", held in Vienna in May ...
Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration
Immigration from diverse origins has not only changed the social composition of highly industrialized societies. It has also profoundly affected their...
Totalitarianism, Freedom, and Democracy
On the Antinuclear Issue
Doomsday or Deterrence? argues against the majority of premises and conclusions of the antinuclear argument as existed in 1986 when this study was fir...
This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with current debates in social theory, cultural studies and philosophy....
An Analysis of Soviet Societies
The Message of a Revolution--a Quarter of a Century After
The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath
Annotation An international group of distinguished academics and public intellectuals, including former dissidents and active politicians, engage in a...