Product Description: The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy...read more

Product Description: Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods...read more

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, the starting point of the anlysis entails an examination of the characteristics of human involvement, or our ways of being in the world. Building upon this assessment of the conditions of human involvement, the philosophical history and emotional economy characteristic of modern relationships is treated, and the nature of expression, social division, suffering, and responsibility is evaluated in light of the theory of feeling presented here. The book is recommended to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and cognitive science.

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 through theories of comedy beginning with classical thought. She then detours through foundational political thinkers who refer to, for instance, laughter and power. We are also introduced to modern systematic approaches to thinking comedy, psychological approaches, and existential approaches. The discerning combination of Heller's individual taste for the pantheon of comedic work and, also, what critics may consider "less significant" work gives this book a character apart from all others. It is the detail with which Heller makes her discussion, how and where she locates "the comic," and probably most significantly her discussion of comedy and our own lives that makes Immortal Comedy a principal book for the entire range of humanities scholars and enthusiasts.

Can Modernity Survive? displays the full range of Heller’s formidable talents for social and philosophical analysis. The papers collected together here provide an integrated statement of her distinctive position concerning the fate of humankind as we approach the twenty-first century.

Written by one of the most influential figures in post-World-War-II social thought, A Theory of Modernity is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity, which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Agnes Heller es autora de una obra copiosísima y muy personal. Sus intereses se extienden desde la filosofía, la filosofía moral y social, a la sociología y la teoría política. Esta pluralidad de objetivos y la evolución y cambio a los que ha estado constantemente sujeto su pensamiento (sobre la permanencia de un interés inalterable respecto del futuro de la modernidad y la libertad) han hecho que en ocasiones sea ésta una obra difícil de aprehender y evaluar...read more

Product Description: The presest volume is a collection of papers given at a conference on "Biopolitics. The Politics of the Body, Race and Nature", held in Vienna in May 1994. The conference was based on the book Biopolitics by Ferenc Feher and Agnes Heller published by the European Centre in Spring 1994...read more

Product Description: The momentous events of 1989, bringing the disintegration of Stalin's empire in Eastern Europe, were the culmination of a long revolution against the post-war Yalta settlement. This book is in part a dramatic chronicle of that long process, in part a commentary on it...read more

Product Description: This book approaches contemporary modern philosophy by combining elements of formal and substantive ethics and aims to provide guidelines for the modern moral philosopher asking the updated Kantian question: what is the right thing for me to do? Developing the main categories of modern philosophy by describing conflicts encountered and solutions sought and found by modern men and women, the author discusses the orientative categories of everyday life, analyzes the institutional norms and finally looks at the universal norm of non-instrumentation...read more

Product Description: Heller and Feher analyse the causes of changes in the vocabulary of politics, summarizing the result in the term 'postmodern political condition'. The authors focus on a variety of processes, including the breakdown of the political narrative--identified by some as the end of ideology; the forms of morality which can operate within democratic politics today; and the role of political, social and cultural movements...read more

Product Description: 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 importance of understanding the true feelings behind the antinuclear argument...read more

Product Description: The author analyzes the nature of philosophical activity to show how questions of value still constitute the core of philosophy, and to make plain the choices and obligations these questions impose. The book begins by showing the world's need for a changed philosophy; it ends by showing how philosophy needs a changed world, a world in which humanity can be at home...read more

Product Description: `This valuable collection makes available the scattered writings of the now dispersed Budapest School ...`Reconstructing Aesthetics' will be required reading for everyone interested in the creative application of heterodox Marxist Aesthetic Theory...read more

Product Description: Feher, Ferenc, Heller, Agnes, Markus, Gyorgy