Engaging Agnes Heller : A Critical Companion.
Title:
Engaging Agnes Heller : A Critical Companion.
Author:
Beilharz, Peter.
ISBN:
9781461633341
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laudatio for Agnes Heller -- Chapter 2. Marxism and Exile: Reflections on Intellectual Migration -- Chapter 3. Agnes Heller's Theory of Modernity -- Chapter 4. Why Does Agnes Heller Matter? Political Action, Social Change and Radical Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 5. The Power of Radical Needs -- Chapter 6. Remembrance of Things Future: From Totalitarianism to Fundamentalism -- Chapter 7. Existential Choice: Heller's Either/Or -- Chapter 8. Narrative Philosophy: An Essay on Agnes Heller -- Chapter 9. To Agnes Heller: An Open Letter on Philosophy and the Real Problem of Woman -- Chapter 10. Loving Fate -- Chapter 11. Agnes Heller as Autobiographer: History and a Myriad of Contexts -- Chapter 12. The Comedy of Philosophy -- Chapter 13. Nietzsche's Thumotic Politics: A Programmatic Statement with an Eye on Agnes Heller -- Chapter 14. From Contingency to Destiny: On Heller's Existential Ethics -- Chapter 15. Reflections on the Essays Addressed to My Work -- Appendix: "Von der Armut am Geiste": A Dialogue by the Young Lukács -- Further Reading -- Index -- Contributors.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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