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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453279803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-7391-2257-6

1-4616-3334-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TerezakisKatie <1972->

Disciplina

199/.439

Soggetti

Philosophy, Hungarian - 20th century

Sociology - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.