Engaging Agnes Heller (eBook)

A Critical Companion

Katie Terezakis (Herausgeber)

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2009
278 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4616-3334-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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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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 Lukacs that exposes her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and philosophical issues throughout her life's work.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Editor's IntroductionChapter 2 Laudatio for Agnes HellerChapter 3 Marxism and Exile: Reflections on Intellectual MigrationChapter 4 Why Does Agnes Heller Matter? Political Action, Social Change, and Radical Politics in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 5 The Power of Political NeedsChapter 6 Remembrance of Things Future: From Totalitarianism to FundamentalismChapter 7 Existential Choice: Heller's Either/OrChapter 8 Narrative Philosophy: An Essay on Agnes HellerChapter 9 To Agnes Heller: An Open Letter on Philosophy and the Real Problem of WomanChapter 10 Loving FateChapter 11 Agnes Heller as Autobiographer: History and a Myriad of ContextsChapter 12 The Comedy of PhilosophyChapter 13 Nietzsche's Thumotic Politics: A Programmatic Statement with an Eye on Agnes HellerChapter 14 From Contingency to Destiny: On Heller's Existential EthicsChapter 15 Reflections on the Essays Addressed to My WorkChapter 16 "Von der Amut am Geiste": A Dialogue by the Young LukacsChapter 17 Further Reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2009
• Co-Autor: Peter Beilharz, Dmitri Nikulin, Katie Terezakis, Simon Tormey, Bryan S. Turner, Richard J. Bernstein, Janos Boros, Kira Brunner Don, Amos Friedland, John Grumley, Agnes Heller, Horst Hutter, Preben Kaarsholm
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: ethics • Social and political philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-3334-6 / 1461633346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-3334-1 / 9781461633341