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, ...

"Can Modernity Survive? is bound to become the centre and the starting point of all future discourse on modernity."--Zygmunt Bauman

This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with what Agnes Heller distinguishes between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one—inspired by Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty—and ending ...

The book is recommended to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and cognitive science.

This book is a collection of recent lectures by Agnes Heller, delivered all over the world. These essays are edited and introduced by the author of the most significant intellectual biography of her work, John Grumley.

This is a philosophical guide to the post-modern historical consciousness. In the post modern age, Agnes Heller argues, we see outselves as dwellers in the prisonhouse of the contemporary.

,This is a work of absolute importance for political philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of ideas.

This collection highlights these pitfalls in the context of continuing possibilities for aesthetics and our relationship with works of art, and throws light on Heller's theory of emotions and feelings, and her theory of modernity.

Heller's unique exploration of the traditional works from Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt combined with the wisdom gained from her life experiences, allows the reader to grasp the essence of modernity.

Heller’s perspective is post-Hegelian: the story of European culture can only be told from its end, the generalization of modernity across the globe.