Engaging Agnes Heller

A Critical Companion
Herausgeber: Terezakis, Katie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122570
• ISBN-10: 0739122576
• Artikelnr.: 25694153

Autorenporträt

Katie Terezakis is assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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