After Thoughts: Beyond the 'System'
Political and Cultural Lectures by Agnes Heller
Published on 21. November 2019
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-90-04-42037-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 contemporary university as well as perennial issues like the possibility of artistic representation of the Holocaust, the question whether revolutions are always betrayed, and the possibility of universality in the contemporary multicultural world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42037-3 (9789004420373)
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Persons
Agnes Heller? (1929-2019) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. She published over 40 books and over 300 articles.
John Grumley, Ph.D. (University of Sydney, 1986) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published two single-authored books, five edited books and journals and over forty single-authored articles in international journals in the main areas of critical theory, biopolitics, and social and political philosophy. His published monographs are History and Totality (Routledge, 1989, 2017) and Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Flux of History (Pluto Press, 2005). Director of the Markus Archive.
John Grumley, Ph.D. (University of Sydney, 1986) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published two single-authored books, five edited books and journals and over forty single-authored articles in international journals in the main areas of critical theory, biopolitics, and social and political philosophy. His published monographs are History and Totality (Routledge, 1989, 2017) and Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Flux of History (Pluto Press, 2005). Director of the Markus Archive.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
part 1: Political
1 Are All Revolutions Betrayed?
2 Truth in Politics
3 Progress, Regress and Human Rights
4 Cosmopolitanism as Philosophy, Refuge, and Destiny
5 Are There Obligations without Rights?
6 On the Concept of 'Care'
7 In Praise of Imperfection
part 2: Cultural
8 Is Representation of the Holocaust Possible?
9 Past, Present and Future of Universities
10 Is the Language of Philosophy in a State of Crisis?
11 Reflections on the Dynamics of Personal Identity in Modernity
12 The 'End of Philosophy' (Four Times) or Karl Marx as a German Philosopher
13 Nietzsche on Dreams
14 What Went Wrong with the Religion of Reason?
15 De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice of the Will)
16 Fathers and Sons in the Bible
17 Infinity as Concept and as Imagination
Bibliography
?Index
Introduction
part 1: Political
1 Are All Revolutions Betrayed?
2 Truth in Politics
3 Progress, Regress and Human Rights
4 Cosmopolitanism as Philosophy, Refuge, and Destiny
5 Are There Obligations without Rights?
6 On the Concept of 'Care'
7 In Praise of Imperfection
part 2: Cultural
8 Is Representation of the Holocaust Possible?
9 Past, Present and Future of Universities
10 Is the Language of Philosophy in a State of Crisis?
11 Reflections on the Dynamics of Personal Identity in Modernity
12 The 'End of Philosophy' (Four Times) or Karl Marx as a German Philosopher
13 Nietzsche on Dreams
14 What Went Wrong with the Religion of Reason?
15 De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice of the Will)
16 Fathers and Sons in the Bible
17 Infinity as Concept and as Imagination
Bibliography
?Index