Agnes Heller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3659901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Agnes Heller |
| NOMBRES | Agnes |
| APELLIDO | Heller |
| FIRMA | HELLER A |
| AFILIACIONES | New School |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 127 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Intellectuals, Philosophy, and Politics in Dark Times
This interview is the result of three long conversations with Ágnes Heller in 2014 and 2017. The subject matter of the interview concerns both biographical issues and Heller's work itself. The story of her life begins in interwar Hungary, the specifics of which are portrayed through the prism of her father's experiences; the interview then addresses Heller's functioning within the communist system, with a special focus on the figure of György Luk…
Culture and Modernity
Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History
Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy is the sum of Agnes Heller's reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe's two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy. Part 1 traces their parallel history from ancient Athens to rebirth in early modern London and Paris. Part 2 explores the interactions between post-metaphysical philosophy and post-tragic drama from the eighteenth throu…
Tragedy and philosophy
This book is the sum of Agnes Heller's reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe's two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy
After Thoughts: Beyond the ‘System’
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. In these lectures, Heller engages one of her greatest strengths: to discover philosophy within the very flux of contemporary events. These bring together such timely topics as refugees, human rights, truth in politics and the conte…
Detection of renal biomarkers in chronic kidney disease using microfluidics
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) typically evolves over many years in a latent period without clinical signs, posing key challenges to detection at relatively early stages of the disease. Accurate and timely diagnosis of CKD enable effective management of the disease and may prevent further progression. However, long turn-around times of current testing methods combined with their relatively high cost due to the need for established laboratory infras…
Georg Lukács and Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy was a frame of reference in the work of Lukács twice, during 1914-16 and 1935-6 respectively. His first-time encounter with Tolstoy was presented in the chapter of The Theory of the Novel involving both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but the former was given more credit and reckoned as the prophet of a new world. It was not until the 1930s that Lukács' taste changed, and his top priority went to Tolstoy instead. Yet, with due respect to the vici…
On thinking
Thesis Eleven is honoured to be able to publish this text by our late friend and mentor Agnes Heller. It was secured in the period before her recent death, and is published now posthumously in her memory. Echoing her earlier text written as an Imaginary Preface to Arendt's Totalitarianism, it responds to themes in the later text, The Life of the Mind. These were among the most eminent of the minds referred to later as Women in Dark Times. Their c…
Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought
The Simul
Thinking about Marysia
Hungary
The story of Hungary can also serve as a warning for other nation-states on the European continent, as the years from 1989 to 1991 were a time of liberation for all the people of Eastern Europe who suffered from totalitarian political systems and ideological indoctrination. As the Bible teaches and Hannah Arendt warns, liberation is not yet liberty. The institutions of liberty have to be constituted, and people need to learn how to make them work…
Freedom, Equality and Fraternity in Kant’s Critique of Judgement
At least during his critical period, all of Kant’s philosophical works have a secret political dimension. Among other things, following the analysis of Hannah Arendt, the Critique of Judgment – paragraph 40 in particular – became a main text of political philosophy. In looking at the Critique of Judgement from a political perspective, I shall refer not to paragraph 40 but to the Kantian discussion of pure aesthetic judgement. In my opinion, one c…
Doomsday or Deterrence
Reflections on Gullibility
The rising spread in popularity of the so-called pseudosciences, such as ufology or “healing with hands,” have led to discontent among scholars and researchers. This situation led me to question whether pseudoscience, as such, exists at all. If so, what distinguishes pseudoscience from science? Is pseudoscience essentially a kind of charlatanism? I question why pseudoscience is popular and, therefore, what needs it can fulfill. Finally, how could…
A Discussion of Péter Krasztev and Jon Van Til’s The Hungarian Patient
In the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, Hungary was long considered one of the “success stories” of post-communist transition to liberal democracy. Yet in recent years the Hungarian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has pioneered a new conception of “illiberal democracy.” In a July 2014 speech, Orban indeed declared that “the era of liberal democracies is over.” Similar declarations can be heard in other parts of po…
On Habermas
From Utopia to Dystopia
Everyday Life
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 ‘group’, ‘crowd’, ‘community’, and deals with char…
My best friend
György Márkus's concept of high culture
In the first part of this essay I sum up the theoretical genesis and foundations of Márkus's theory of culture as a theory of modernity. Central to the high culture of modernity, defined in terms of the future-oriented creation of the new, is the structure of authorship, work, and reception that pertains across the sciences, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. In the second part I question the scope of the concept in relation to the arts an…
Ficino’s Symposium
The Metaphor of the Throw in Nicholas of Cusa’s Game of Spheres
Philosophy as a literary genre
On Evils, Evil, Radical Evil and the Demonic
This article explores the problem of evil from a post-metaphysical position. Distinguishing between good and evil remains no less a pressing task in a world after the "death of God
Dictatorship over Needs
Where Are we at Home
Death of the Subject
Five Approaches to the Phenomenon of Shame
IN this essay, I will approach the phenomenon of shame from five different perspectives: the anthropological perspective, the sociological perspective, the ethical perspective, the psychological perspective, and, finally, the historical perspective. All five approaches will be philosophical: I will not rely on field research, statistics, clinical research, or interviews but rather on the philosophical tradition and, incidentally, on works of art.…
Modernity's Pendulum
From hermeneutics in social science toward a hermeneutics of social science
The Beauty of Friendship
Research Article| January 01 1998 The Beauty of Friendship Agnes Heller Agnes Heller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (1): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-1-5 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Agnes Heller; The Beauty of Friendship. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1998; 97 (1): 5–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
The Three Logics of Modernity and the Double Bind of the Modern Imagination
This article distinguishes between two constituents of modernity which together stand for the essence of modernity. It also distinguishes between three logics or tendencies in modernity. In pursuit of these aims it concentrates on a single issue, arguing that one cannot understand modernity, particularly not its heterogeneous character, from the viewpoint of the technological imagination (the Heideggerian Gestell) alone. The article interprets mo…
A Theory of Needs Revisited
Or Modernity and Terror
The Discourse Ethics of Habermas
Hungary 1956 Revisited
The Positivism Dispute as a Turning Point in German Post-War Theory
with historical events and to some extent, on a high artistic level but the forms of life and the problems of the present were not included as themes and, more importantly, it did not result in the creation of new literary forms. The new literary public sphere, a new form of reception of art, was created only in the 1960s and by the works published then. I wish to point out in the present essay that this was not only the case in literature: the n…
Hungary
The story of Hungary can also serve as a warning for other nation-states on the European continent, as the years from 1989 to 1991 were a time of liberation for all the people of Eastern Europe who suffered from totalitarian political systems and ideological indoctrination. As the Bible teaches and Hannah Arendt warns, liberation is not yet liberty. The institutions of liberty have to be constituted, and people need to learn how to make them work…
My best friend
György Márkus's concept of high culture
In the first part of this essay I sum up the theoretical genesis and foundations of Márkus's theory of culture as a theory of modernity. Central to the high culture of modernity, defined in terms of the future-oriented creation of the new, is the structure of authorship, work, and reception that pertains across the sciences, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. In the second part I question the scope of the concept in relation to the arts an…
And What if I Choose “C”
Preliminary Adieu for Jacques Derrida
Are We Living In A World Of Emotional Impoverishment
The Human Condition
Class, democracy, modernity
On thinking
Thesis Eleven is honoured to be able to publish this text by our late friend and mentor Agnes Heller. It was secured in the period before her recent death, and is published now posthumously in her memory. Echoing her earlier text written as an Imaginary Preface to Arendt's Totalitarianism, it responds to themes in the later text, The Life of the Mind. These were among the most eminent of the minds referred to later as Women in Dark Times. Their c…
A Discussion of Péter Krasztev and Jon Van Til’s The Hungarian Patient
In the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, Hungary was long considered one of the “success stories” of post-communist transition to liberal democracy. Yet in recent years the Hungarian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has pioneered a new conception of “illiberal democracy.” In a July 2014 speech, Orban indeed declared that “the era of liberal democracies is over.” Similar declarations can be heard in other parts of po…
On Habermas
From Utopia to Dystopia
Shakespeare and History
Even if there were not a single true train of thought in Jan Kott’s collection of essays, it would still remain my favourite book on Shakespeare. Kott’s technical erudition is impressive, but his intelligence is always excited by the plays themselves: he is not concerned with the mechanics
Esquisse de la structure de la vie quotidienne
Il nous est impossible, dans le cadre de cette étude, d'entreprendre un traité de la structure de la vie quotidienne. Nous voudrions seulement mettre l'accent sur quelques thèmes qui seront utilisés dans des analyses ultérieures
L'esthétique de György Lukács
Towards a Sociology of Knowledge of Everyday Life
Individuum und Praxis. Positionen der 'Budapester Schule
La connaissance quotidienne
Renaissance man
The Positivism Dispute as a Turning Point in German Post-War Theory
with historical events and to some extent, on a high artistic level but the forms of life and the problems of the present were not included as themes and, more importantly, it did not result in the creation of new literary forms. The new literary public sphere, a new form of reception of art, was created only in the 1960s and by the works published then. I wish to point out in the present essay that this was not only the case in literature: the n…
The Humanization of Socialism
Towards an anthropology of feeling
The philosophy of the late lukacs
Georg Lukacs and Irma Seidler
the essays can we discover even a single objective similarity. The re-creation of the relationship consists of the exploration of the relationship's possibilities. These possibilities were Lukacs thought (and lived) out according to the rules of Platonic conduct. These possibilities are daydreams, or, more accurately - rational visions, the dreams and visions of what could be if, what could have been, if. In these daydreams and visions, however, …
Historicity and Consciouness
Renaissance Man
Is Radical Philosophy Possible
Paradigm of production
The Fear of Power. A Contribution to the Genesis and Morphology of Eurocommunism
Ratinality and democracy
On Instincts and A Theory of Feelings
Equality Reconsidered
Enlightenment against Fundamentalism
It was a double joy for me to be honored with the Lessing Prize by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Honor and recognition previously had not been my companions in life, and it was precisely their absence which I took for an indication that the path I had decided to follow was more honorable than that of conformity, which I have avoided. Thus I have cultivated in my character an almost instinctive mistrust of all institutional hon…
The power of shame
Den ældre Lukács' filosofi
Den ældre Lukács' filosofi
"Marx and the "Liberation of Humankind
A Theory of history
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