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A Theory of Modernity by Agnes Heller
RRP: $245.60Booksplease Price: $214.22Written 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... -
Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $77.62Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon, Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man... -
A Theory of History by Agnes Heller
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $97.40This 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... -
After Thoughts: Beyond the ‘System’: Political and Cultural Lectures by Agnes Heller by Agnes Heller† 9789004420373
Booksplease Price: $246.31This 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... -
The Concept of the Beautiful by Agnes Heller 9780739170472
Booksplease Price: $202.34The 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... -
Everyday Life Agnes Heller 9781138927506
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.99This 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,... -
A Theory of Feelings by Agnes Heller 9780739129678
Booksplease Price: $108.57A 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... -
Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism by Agnes Heller
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97Grandeur 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... -
A Short History of My Philosophy by Agnes Heller
Booksplease Price: $192.55A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they... -
Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Vortex of History by John Grumley 9780745321943
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $146.16Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual range and output includes ethics, philosophical anthropology, political... -
Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller by John Rundell 9780739141328
Booksplease Price: $98.15Aesthetics 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... -
Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller by John Rundell 9780739141311
Booksplease Price: $202.34Aesthetics 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... -
Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion by Katie Terezakis 9780739122570
Booksplease Price: $108.57This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most... -
Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Vortex of History John Grumley 9780745321936
Booksplease Price: $62.75Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual range and output includes ethics, philosophical anthropology, political... -
A Theory of Modernity Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research) 9780631216131
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $70.79Written 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... -
The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History by Agnes Heller 9780742512511
Booksplease Price: $128.71The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by... -
The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation Patricia Springborg 9781041250999
Booksplease Price: $250.36Originally published in 1981, The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation is a sociological and philosophical exploration of how human needs are understood and addressed within the... -
Can Modernity Survive? Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research) 9780745607986
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $94.08Can 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... -
The Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life by Agnes Heller 9780739109199
Booksplease Price: $237.53Immortal 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... -
Routledge Revivals: The Power of Shame (1985): A Rational Perspective Agnes Heller 9781138561212
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $70.41First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem of conscience, has been seldom discussed by... -
The Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life by Agnes Heller 9780739112465
Booksplease Price: $94.00Immortal 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... -
Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller: With and against Marx by Lucy Jane Ward 9780739189764
Booksplease Price: $202.34Ward'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 Gyoergy Lukacs... -
The Enigma of Justice: Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth by Claire Nyblom 9781793654526
Booksplease Price: $160.67The Enigma of Justice: Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth offers a novel perspective on the idea of justice. Claire Nyblom argues that... -
The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory by Clive Barnett 9780820351520
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $63.76This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and... -
Radical Natural Law: The Critical Standpoint of Animals and Nature Professor Josephine Donovan 9781350563032
Booksplease Price: $181.50Eschewing anthropocentric framings, Radical Natural Law proposes a reconception of natural law that locates it in the critical standpoints of animals and other life forms in the natural world... -
Rethinking Imagination Gillian Robinson 9780415091930
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the modern and post-modern, creativity and sublimity, progress... -
History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture David Roberts (Monash University, Australia) 9780367530969
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an... -
Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, Modernity by John Rundell 9780367332969
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $89.59Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the... -
The Necessity Of Friction by Nordal Akerman
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.97Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all of our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with... -
Politics at the Edge: The PSA Yearbook 1999 by Chris Pierson 9780333779033
Booksplease Price: $192.53Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference. This volume brings together nearly twenty of the liveliest, most thoughtful and original papers from some two hundred presented... -
Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship by Rainer Baubock 9781138625914
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $69.78First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of... -
Politics at the Edge: The PSA Yearbook 1999 by Chris Pierson 9780333915622
Booksplease Price: $190.81Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference. This volume brings together nearly twenty of the liveliest, most thoughtful and original papers from some two hundred presented... -
Facets of Modernity: Reflections on Fractured Subjectivity by Dmitri Nikulin 9781786615053
Booksplease Price: $216.53What does it mean to be human in modernity? This book examines being human, in its theoretical, practical, and productive aspects, not in abstraction from historical, social, and political settings,... -
Critiques of Everyday Life: An Introduction by Michael Gardiner 9780415113151
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $112.98Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a... -
Theory and Society: Selected Writings by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509550777
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish... -
Theory and Society: Selected Writings by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509550784
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish... -
Mosaic of a Scientific Life by Istvan Hargittai 9783030347680
Booksplease Price: $190.89In this book, Istvan Hargittai, an internationally renowned physical chemist, narrates his life by introducing over forty personalities that played noteworthy roles in his career. The time span... -
Dialectic of Romanticism by Peter Murphy 9780826487865
Booksplease Price: $171.09Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism... -
The Polity Reader in Social Theory by Polity
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.06This book provides a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the major debates and schools of thought in social theory today. Some thirty different selections cover the period from the turn of... -
Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom by John Rundell
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97In a new reading of Immanuel Kant's work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these - rather than the problem of reason - as the two central pivoting...