Freedom And Dissatisfaction In The Works Of Agnes Heller

Author : Lucy Jane Ward
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739189771

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Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller by Lucy Jane Ward Pdf

Ward’s book focuses on the work of the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller; prominent member of the Budapest School, a group of students who studied under the Marxist social theorist György Lukács. For both Marx and Heller (albeit in different ways) dissatisfaction emerges as the inevitable result of the expansion of need(s) within modernity and as a catalyst for the development of anthropological wealth (what Marx refers to as the 'human being rich in need'). Ward argues that dissatisfaction and the corresponding category of human wealth–as both motif and method–is central to grasping Heller’s seemingly disparate writings. While Marx postulates a radical overcoming of dissatisfaction, Heller argues dissatisfaction is integral not only to the on-going survival of modernity but also to the dynamics of both freedom and individual life. In this way Heller’s work remains committed to a position that both continually returns and departs, is both with and against, the philosophy of Marx. This book will be of interest to scholars of political philosophy, social theory, critical theory, and sociology.

Author : J.F. Dorahy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004395985

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The Budapest School by J.F. Dorahy Pdf

The Budapest School: Beyond Marxism develops a systematic reconstruction of the post-Marxist projects of the Budapest School. It charts the evolution of these thinkers from their beginnings in the ‘renaissance of Marxism’ through to their contemporary critical theories of modernity.

Author : Clifford G. Christians
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107152144

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Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age by Clifford G. Christians Pdf

Presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004457362

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The Social Philosophy of Agnes Heller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Nyblom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Justice (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9781793654533

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The Enigma of Justice by Claire Nyblom Pdf

"Justice is a cultural and historical constant, characterized by plurality and incommensurate theories. This book identifies regulative and critical dimensions in the works of Kant, Hegel, Heller, and Honneth. The significance of the categorical imperative mediating plurality leads to a dynamic idea of justice that resists relativism"--

Author : Simon Tormey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719060389

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Agnes Heller by Simon Tormey Pdf

This thorough examination of Agnes Heller's political thought covers a range of subjects, from Marxian anthropology, through aesthetics, the philosophy of history, ethical socialism, postmodernism, and the political forms of the modern state. Simon Tormey treats Heller's work historically and thematically, placing it in a postmodern, 21st-century context.

Author : Harry Blatterer,Pauline Johnson,Maria R. Markus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230290679

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Modern Privacy by Harry Blatterer,Pauline Johnson,Maria R. Markus Pdf

Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our perceptions, evaluations and enactments of privacy in constant flux.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452265469

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Encyclopedia of Social Theory by George Ritzer Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Social Theory is an indispensable reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary social theory. It examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Led by internationally renowned scholar George Ritzer, the Encyclopedia of Social Theory draws together a team of more than 200 international scholars covering the developments, achievements, and prospects of social theory from its inception in the 18th century to the present. Understanding that social theory can both explain and alter the social world, this two-volume set serves as not only a foundation for learning, but also an inspiration for creative and reflexive engagement with the rich range of ideas it contains.

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786636140

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The Theory of Need in Marx by Agnes Heller Pdf

The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are all in some way built upon the concept of need. From Marx's varying and passing interpretations of a theory of need, Agnes Heller unravels the main tendencies and demonstrates the importance which Marx attached to the "restructuring" of a system of needs going beyond the purely material. She also brings out those aspects, especially the idea of "radical needs" which point to revolutionary activity and to the project which Marx could only foresee but which for us today is of real urgency: the "society of associated producers". Thus Agnes Heller's study is not only the first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, but the basis for a discussion of the utmost contemporary relevance.

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000948738

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Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism by Agnes Heller Pdf

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 to follow.At its roots this volume is a critique of the idea that we can have "scientific knowledge" of the social and political future. Totalitarian Marxism combined statements of history and claims of omniscience. Free choice was surrendered to history, and when the predicted outcomes fail to materialize, when communism came closer to being buried than capitalism, and western ideals of democracy proved far more compelling than inherited doctrines of authoritarianism, the outcome proved monumental and disastrous.The authors position themselves as evolving from critical Marxism to post-Marxism, and then post modernism. By this, they mean a modest view of life, one that moves beyond radical universalism and grand narrative, into a realization of individualism and equity concerns are central to the end of the twentieth century. The volume proceeds historically: from studies of the classic Marxian legacy; to the early twentieth century efforts of Lukacs, Weber and Adorno; proceeding to the disintegration of the Marxian paradigm in both its pure and revisionist forms. It ends with a study of options posed by this paradigmatic collapse - to consideration of the status of postmodernity and the choices between pure relativism and a theological fundamentalism. ,This is a work of absolute importance for political philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of ideas. In raising recent events to a theoretically meaningful framework, it represents a refreshing as well as remarkable step toward understanding Revolutions from 1789 to 1989.

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268826

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A Theory of History by Agnes Heller Pdf

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 theory of history which is still radical enough to apply to all social structures.

Author : Peter Koslowski,Andreas Follesdal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642606526

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Restructuring the Welfare State by Peter Koslowski,Andreas Follesdal Pdf

The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in Europe. The book offers a unique combination of empirical and philosophical-ethical analysis of the welfare state.

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789604597

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Hegel Contra Sociology by Gillian Rose Pdf

Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant and Fichte, Hegel supplies a preemptive critique of Weber, Durkheim, and all of the sociological traditions that stem from these "neo-Kantian" thinkers, Rose argues that any attempt to preserve Marxism from a similar critique and any attempt to renew sociology cannot succeed without coming to terms with Hegel's own speculative discourse. With an analysis of Hegel's mature works in light of his early radical writings, this book represents a profound step toward enacting just such a return to the Hegelian.

Author : Joseph Fracchia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004471597

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Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.) by Joseph Fracchia Pdf

In an offhand, never systematically elaborated comment Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact for the study of human history’. This book explores the implications of Marx’s radically corporeal insight for historical-materialist analysis of socio-economic and cultural forms.

Author : John Grumley
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114250918

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Agnes Heller by John Grumley Pdf

Concise student introduction to political philosopher Agnes Heller that covers the development of her thinking over several decades.