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  • The Theory of Need in Marx

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of needWhat are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upon various mechanisms designed to satisfy “human needs,” not many economists have addressed the idea of need itself. Heller’s highly original work identifies this lacuna, recognizing the concept of needs as playing a “hidden but principal role in Marx’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Theory of Feelings

    by Agnes Heller ...
    A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pursues the nature of "feeling" itself, in all of its variability, through a close study of the distinctive categories of emotions, emotional dispositions, orientive feelings, and the passions. As such, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • A Theory of History

    by Ágnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems. Instead it outlines a feasible ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Everyday Life

    by Ágnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    This book, first published in 1984, examines the politics and philosophy of ordinary men and women, and their ordinary transactions. It analyses the interaction between the individual and the social, both for the roots of everyday behaviour and for the means to change the social fabric. Using an approach that combines Marx, Husserl, Heidegger and Aristotle, Agnes Heller defines categories such as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China. These masterful essays attribute much of the problem of totalitarianism to its blind acceptance of a Marxist philosophy of practice. With the failure of communist practice, the collapse of the Marxian paradigm was quick ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Engaging Agnes Heller

    A Critical Companion

    by Katie Terezakis, Peter Beilharz, Janos Boros, Amos Friedland, John Grumley, Horst Hutter, Preben Kaarsholm, Dmitri Nikulin, Simon Tormey, Richard J. Bernstein0, Kira Brunner Don1, Bryan S. Turner2, Agnes Heller3 ...
    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, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Under Swiss Protection

    Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest

    by Agnes Hirschi, Paul Fabry, Mordechai Fleischer, Jean Greenstein, David Gur, Klári Barna, Vera Bellák, Eva Bino0, Agnes Heffner1, Iván Sándor2, József Rabbi Schweitzer3, André Sirtes4, Eva Szirmai5, Eva Teichman6, Irena Braun Lefkovic7, Tzipporah Cohen8, Agnes Heller9, Idit Hirschfeld0, Hedva Katz1, Naomi Katz2, Shmuel Katz3, Ester Kaufman4, Mordechai László Kremer5, Judith Miriam Maté6, Agnes Misan7, Mordechai Neumann8, Miryam Palgi9, Peter Pollak0, Alexander Schlesinger1, Arthur Rabbi Schneier2, Moshe Shavit3, Shulamit Shtauber4, Peter Tarjan5, Charles Gati6, Steven Thomas Geiger7, George Somogyi8, Geoffrey Leonard Tier9, Michael Vertes0 ...
    Translated by Noga Beck; Dahlia Thompson; Lauren Yarmar1 ...
    This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Renaissance Man

    by Ágnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon, Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man. The concept was generalised and accepted by all; its characteristic features were man as a dynamic being, creating and re-creating himself throughout his life. The images of man, however, were very ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: The Power of Shame (1985)

    A Rational Perspective

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem of conscience, has been seldom discussed by moral philosophers. The essays focus on the ethical regulation of human action and judgement, examining both its constant and varying elements and concentrating on contemporary types of moral regulation. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Doomsday or Deterrence?

    On the Antinuclear Issue

    by Ferenc Fehér, Agnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Doomsday or Deterrence? argues against the majority of premises and conclusions of the antinuclear argument as existed in 1986 when this study was first published. Fehér and Heller’s study claims that social changes are important to curb technology trends that lean toward the construction of nuclear weapons, as well as using the ‘West’ as its own value that needs to be defended and emphasising the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Time Is Out of Joint

    Shakespeare as Philosopher of History

    by Agnes Heller ...
    The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD