A Heller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Heller |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Heller |
| SIGNATURE | HELLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3218-3713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Blurring the Boundary Between Regular and Irregular: Tamil Low-Wage Migrants in the Gulf and the Co-Construction of Khalluli
The mobility between South Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states constitutes the largest migration corridor in the world. Irregular practices are widely tolerated in this region, but have been relatively underexplored in the literature. In exploring that lack, this paper troubles the distinction between regularity and irregularity, demonstrating how different actors constituting the migration industry are complicit in the maintenance…
The Consequences of Husband's International Migration on Family Left-Behind in Tamil Nadu, India
Blue‐collar Emigration from India and Governance
Indian expatriates numbering about 6.5 million, i.e. one‐third of the Gulf population, have been engaged in skilled, semi‐skilled and unskilled work since the time of the oil boom in the Persian Gulf regions. Putting monetary benefits to one side, emigrants' problems, such as false promises of recruiting agents, high visa charges, hurdles at workplaces and a defective system to address the grievances of Indian workers in the 18 Emigration Check R…
Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey
Journal Article Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey Get access Marc N. Elliott, Marc N. Elliott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Sherman Edwards, W. Sherman Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David J. Klein, David J. Klein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Amy H…
The Secrets of Columbo
The character-manufacturing industry is constantly busy. New television-series fashion heroes and heroines for every conceivable kind of taste but they rarely hit the mark. The principle of manufacturing is simple enough: a Self can present itself if it is made presentable. How the Self is made presentable is a process described well by the sociologist Erving Goffman. Firstly, one takes a body, small or tall, handsome or ugly, highly masculine or…
From Red to Green
The most important systematic analysis of social movements to date has been Touraine's The Voice and the Eye. Here, one can almost paraphrase Marx's famous dictum: for the French sociologist, the history of all societies is a history of movements. In identifying movements with social classes, Touraine negotiates a radical turn from system theories to a strong version of action theory and breaks with the Procrustean framework of an Althusserian-Po…
Lukacs and the Holy Family
In January 1968, Lucien Goldmann organized a conference on aesthetic theory in Royaumont, France. Adorno was one of the keynote speakers; I delivered a lecture on Lukács's The Specificity of the Aesthetic, which then was still not well known. Of course, we were immediately entangled in passionate discussions arguing for three different, and apparently irreconcilable, positions. Then something entirely unexpected happened. A young man took the ros…
On Being Anti-Nuclear in Soviet Societies
This paper seeks to substantiate a prediction that runs counter to die cherished hopes, illusions or, sometimes, even delusions of the Western peace movement. Stated boldly our prediction runs as follows: of all the possible autonomous social movements, the anti-nuclear movement is the one least likely to become of any consequence and least likely to exert an impact on the future course of Soviet societies. In a somewhat more cautious formulation…
The Antinomies of Peace
The new peace movements present a number of dilemmas. On the one hand, there are some accumulated experience and principles which can still serve as standards to criticize not the illusions but the (often-deliberate) self-delusions of peace movements. On the other hand, these movements have obviously raised a number of questions which had not been part of Left theoretical discourse and political strategy, and which have to be confronted in order …
Comedy and Rationality
The following is a study of the relation between the rational and the comic in modern comedy in terms of recurring types of human behavior, patterns of rational attitude and their problems. As all great analysts of the comic have argued, laughter, the ridiculous, thesatyrical, the ironical, and the like, both in life and in literature, are inextricably related to rationality. Without indulging in extensive definitions, it is clear that comic phen…
Marxist Ethics and the Future of Eastern Europe
Question: 1956 was a year of drastic change in the history of socialist countries, and for you and other people around Lukacs, it was a decisive year. You participated in a conference on freedom at the beginning of 1956. Block had organized it and Kolakowski read a paper. The conference had a clear political impact and provided an excellent opportunity to meet the young generation educated in countries of "realized socialism." In reference to thi…
On the New Adventures of the Dialectic
Though qualitatively different, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Lukács' Ontology, Adorno's Negative Dialectics, and Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete are equally important attempts to formulate the new adventures of the dialectic. In terms of their scope, Lukács' and Sartre's works are most similar. Both attempt to reconstitute a comprehensive philosophical system. Kosik's and Adorno's works are rather collections of closely related ess…
Forms of Equality
A spectre haunts the industrialized world—the spectre of egalitarianism. Demands to equalize the First and Third Worlds or to reduce needs to bring about social equality are articulated by movements and theories which keep “social equality” on the agenda. But, as we will try to show, a consistently implemented egalitarianism is a myth. All attempts to realize it as a general principle of social organization in a context of even minimal industrial…
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: New Left Books, 1975
Notes on Lukacs' Ontology
Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller, Gyorgy Markus and Mihaly Vajda
The Marxist Theory of Revolution and The Revolution of Everyday Life
The concept of everyday life came into prominence over the last twenty years in the writings of a number of Marxist thinkers, all relatively independent of one another. It should be sufficient to mention here (in the historical order of the problem's emergence), such names as Lefèbvre, Lukacs, and Kosik. As is true of every addition to the conceptual apparatus of Marxism, it came as a reaction to the new problems that arose in the course of revol…
From Red to Green
The most important systematic analysis of social movements to date has been Touraine's The Voice and the Eye. Here, one can almost paraphrase Marx's famous dictum: for the French sociologist, the history of all societies is a history of movements. In identifying movements with social classes, Touraine negotiates a radical turn from system theories to a strong version of action theory and breaks with the Procrustean framework of an Althusserian-Po…
Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey
Journal Article Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey Get access Marc N. Elliott, Marc N. Elliott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Sherman Edwards, W. Sherman Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David J. Klein, David J. Klein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Amy H…
Notes on Lukacs' Ontology
Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller, Gyorgy Markus and Mihaly Vajda
The Consequences of Husband's International Migration on Family Left-Behind in Tamil Nadu, India
Marxist Ethics and the Future of Eastern Europe
Question: 1956 was a year of drastic change in the history of socialist countries, and for you and other people around Lukacs, it was a decisive year. You participated in a conference on freedom at the beginning of 1956. Block had organized it and Kolakowski read a paper. The conference had a clear political impact and provided an excellent opportunity to meet the young generation educated in countries of "realized socialism." In reference to thi…
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: New Left Books, 1975
The Marxist Theory of Revolution and The Revolution of Everyday Life
The concept of everyday life came into prominence over the last twenty years in the writings of a number of Marxist thinkers, all relatively independent of one another. It should be sufficient to mention here (in the historical order of the problem's emergence), such names as Lefèbvre, Lukacs, and Kosik. As is true of every addition to the conceptual apparatus of Marxism, it came as a reaction to the new problems that arose in the course of revol…
Blurring the Boundary Between Regular and Irregular: Tamil Low-Wage Migrants in the Gulf and the Co-Construction of Khalluli
The mobility between South Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states constitutes the largest migration corridor in the world. Irregular practices are widely tolerated in this region, but have been relatively underexplored in the literature. In exploring that lack, this paper troubles the distinction between regularity and irregularity, demonstrating how different actors constituting the migration industry are complicit in the maintenance…
On Being Anti-Nuclear in Soviet Societies
This paper seeks to substantiate a prediction that runs counter to die cherished hopes, illusions or, sometimes, even delusions of the Western peace movement. Stated boldly our prediction runs as follows: of all the possible autonomous social movements, the anti-nuclear movement is the one least likely to become of any consequence and least likely to exert an impact on the future course of Soviet societies. In a somewhat more cautious formulation…
The Antinomies of Peace
The new peace movements present a number of dilemmas. On the one hand, there are some accumulated experience and principles which can still serve as standards to criticize not the illusions but the (often-deliberate) self-delusions of peace movements. On the other hand, these movements have obviously raised a number of questions which had not been part of Left theoretical discourse and political strategy, and which have to be confronted in order …
On the New Adventures of the Dialectic
Though qualitatively different, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Lukács' Ontology, Adorno's Negative Dialectics, and Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete are equally important attempts to formulate the new adventures of the dialectic. In terms of their scope, Lukács' and Sartre's works are most similar. Both attempt to reconstitute a comprehensive philosophical system. Kosik's and Adorno's works are rather collections of closely related ess…
The Marxist Theory of Revolution and The Revolution of Everyday Life
The concept of everyday life came into prominence over the last twenty years in the writings of a number of Marxist thinkers, all relatively independent of one another. It should be sufficient to mention here (in the historical order of the problem's emergence), such names as Lefèbvre, Lukacs, and Kosik. As is true of every addition to the conceptual apparatus of Marxism, it came as a reaction to the new problems that arose in the course of revol…
Notes on Lukacs' Ontology
Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller, Gyorgy Markus and Mihaly Vajda
On the New Adventures of the Dialectic
Though qualitatively different, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Lukács' Ontology, Adorno's Negative Dialectics, and Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete are equally important attempts to formulate the new adventures of the dialectic. In terms of their scope, Lukács' and Sartre's works are most similar. Both attempt to reconstitute a comprehensive philosophical system. Kosik's and Adorno's works are rather collections of closely related ess…
Forms of Equality
A spectre haunts the industrialized world—the spectre of egalitarianism. Demands to equalize the First and Third Worlds or to reduce needs to bring about social equality are articulated by movements and theories which keep “social equality” on the agenda. But, as we will try to show, a consistently implemented egalitarianism is a myth. All attempts to realize it as a general principle of social organization in a context of even minimal industrial…
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: New Left Books, 1975
Marxist Ethics and the Future of Eastern Europe
Question: 1956 was a year of drastic change in the history of socialist countries, and for you and other people around Lukacs, it was a decisive year. You participated in a conference on freedom at the beginning of 1956. Block had organized it and Kolakowski read a paper. The conference had a clear political impact and provided an excellent opportunity to meet the young generation educated in countries of "realized socialism." In reference to thi…
Comedy and Rationality
The following is a study of the relation between the rational and the comic in modern comedy in terms of recurring types of human behavior, patterns of rational attitude and their problems. As all great analysts of the comic have argued, laughter, the ridiculous, thesatyrical, the ironical, and the like, both in life and in literature, are inextricably related to rationality. Without indulging in extensive definitions, it is clear that comic phen…
The Antinomies of Peace
The new peace movements present a number of dilemmas. On the one hand, there are some accumulated experience and principles which can still serve as standards to criticize not the illusions but the (often-deliberate) self-delusions of peace movements. On the other hand, these movements have obviously raised a number of questions which had not been part of Left theoretical discourse and political strategy, and which have to be confronted in order …
On Being Anti-Nuclear in Soviet Societies
This paper seeks to substantiate a prediction that runs counter to die cherished hopes, illusions or, sometimes, even delusions of the Western peace movement. Stated boldly our prediction runs as follows: of all the possible autonomous social movements, the anti-nuclear movement is the one least likely to become of any consequence and least likely to exert an impact on the future course of Soviet societies. In a somewhat more cautious formulation…
From Red to Green
The most important systematic analysis of social movements to date has been Touraine's The Voice and the Eye. Here, one can almost paraphrase Marx's famous dictum: for the French sociologist, the history of all societies is a history of movements. In identifying movements with social classes, Touraine negotiates a radical turn from system theories to a strong version of action theory and breaks with the Procrustean framework of an Althusserian-Po…
Lukacs and the Holy Family
In January 1968, Lucien Goldmann organized a conference on aesthetic theory in Royaumont, France. Adorno was one of the keynote speakers; I delivered a lecture on Lukács's The Specificity of the Aesthetic, which then was still not well known. Of course, we were immediately entangled in passionate discussions arguing for three different, and apparently irreconcilable, positions. Then something entirely unexpected happened. A young man took the ros…
The Secrets of Columbo
The character-manufacturing industry is constantly busy. New television-series fashion heroes and heroines for every conceivable kind of taste but they rarely hit the mark. The principle of manufacturing is simple enough: a Self can present itself if it is made presentable. How the Self is made presentable is a process described well by the sociologist Erving Goffman. Firstly, one takes a body, small or tall, handsome or ugly, highly masculine or…
Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey
Journal Article Differences by Survey Language and Mode among Chinese Respondents to a CAHPS Health Plan Survey Get access Marc N. Elliott, Marc N. Elliott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Sherman Edwards, W. Sherman Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David J. Klein, David J. Klein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Amy H…
Blue‐collar Emigration from India and Governance
Indian expatriates numbering about 6.5 million, i.e. one‐third of the Gulf population, have been engaged in skilled, semi‐skilled and unskilled work since the time of the oil boom in the Persian Gulf regions. Putting monetary benefits to one side, emigrants' problems, such as false promises of recruiting agents, high visa charges, hurdles at workplaces and a defective system to address the grievances of Indian workers in the 18 Emigration Check R…
The Consequences of Husband's International Migration on Family Left-Behind in Tamil Nadu, India
Blurring the Boundary Between Regular and Irregular: Tamil Low-Wage Migrants in the Gulf and the Co-Construction of Khalluli
The mobility between South Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states constitutes the largest migration corridor in the world. Irregular practices are widely tolerated in this region, but have been relatively underexplored in the literature. In exploring that lack, this paper troubles the distinction between regularity and irregularity, demonstrating how different actors constituting the migration industry are complicit in the maintenance…
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