Description
Book SynopsisConcise student introduction to political philosopher Agnes Heller that covers the development of her thinking over several decades.
Trade ReviewA comprehensive book on her oeuvre may well find numerous readers beyond the walls of the Academia. -- Prof. Markus, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Dark Times, the Existential Choice and the Moral Mission
Section 1: The Renaissance of Marx
1: Lukacs, Ethics and Everyday Life
2: Towards a Philosophical Anthropology
3: Critique of Really Existing Socialism
Section 2: Towards Post-Marxist Radicalism
4: The Quest for Philosophical Radicalism
6: Rationality through the Prism of Everyday Life
7: The Limits of Modern Justice
8: A New Theory of Modernity
9: The Ethical Imperative
Section 3: Reflective Post-Modernism
10: The Spirit of Our Congregation
11: The Pendulum of Modernity
12: Paradoxical Cultural Modernity
13: Autonomy, Irony and Ethics
15: Conclusion:
References
Index
