Engaging Agnes Heller

A Critical Companion
Herausgeber: Terezakis, Katie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, journalists, and political scientists contextualize, compare and assess different elements of Heller's work; the collection as a whole highlights relevant shifts within that work as well as its intrinsic consistency. Essays in the collection address the relationship between philosophy, political practice and everyday life, Heller's theory of modernity and her ethical theory, her recent scholarship on comedy and the Biblical book of Genesis, her theories of radical needs and radical politics, her aesthetic theory, and questions about her relationship to feminist theory. The collection includes Heller's reflections on the collected essays, as well as an early essay on her mentor Lukács that exposes her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and philosophical issues throughout her life's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122563
• ISBN-10: 0739122568
• Artikelnr.: 25692439

Autorenporträt

Edited by Katie Terezakis - Contributions by Peter Beilharz; Richard J. Bernstein; Janos Boros; Kira Brunner Don; Amos Friedland; John Grumley; Agnes Heller; Horst Hutter; Preben Kaarsholm; Dmitri Nikulin; Katie Terezakis; Simon Tormey and Bryan S. Turner

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Editor's Introduction Chapter 2 Laudatio for Agnes Heller Chapter
3 Marxism and Exile: Reflections on Intellectual Migration Chapter 4 Why
Does Agnes Heller Matter? Political Action, Social Change, and Radical
Politics in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 5 The Power of Political 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 Chapter 16 "Von
der Amut am Geiste": A Dialogue by the Young Lukacs Chapter 17 Further
Reading