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By Katie Terezakis,Peter Beilharz,Richard J. Bernstein,Janos Boros,Kira Brunner Don,Amos Friedland,John Grumley,Agnes Heller,Horst Hutter,Preben Kaarsholm,Dmitri Nikulin,Simon Tormey,Bryan S. Turner

This number of essays examines the existence and regarded Agnes Heller, who rose to foreign acclaim as a Marxist dissident in japanese Europe, then went directly to increase essentially the most accomplished oeuvres in modern philosophy, declaring a particular moral thought and analyses of an unlimited variety of subject matters masking so much each philosophical sector. the following, philosophers, sociologists, reporters, and political scientists contextualize, examine and check diversified components of Heller's paintings; the gathering as an entire highlights appropriate shifts inside of that paintings in addition to its intrinsic consistency. Essays within the assortment deal with the connection among philosophy, political perform and way of life, Heller's idea of modernity and her moral thought, her contemporary scholarship on comedy and the Biblical publication of Genesis, her theories of radical wishes and radical politics, her aesthetic concept, and questions on her courting to feminist thought. the gathering comprises Heller's reflections at the amassed essays, in addition to an early essay on her mentor LukOcs that exposes her personal steadfast engagement with convinced useful and philosophical matters all through her life's work.

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Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion by Katie Terezakis,Peter Beilharz,Richard J. Bernstein,Janos Boros,Kira Brunner Don,Amos Friedland,John Grumley,Agnes Heller,Horst Hutter,Preben Kaarsholm,Dmitri Nikulin,Simon Tormey,Bryan S. Turner


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