Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller (eBook)

With and against Marx

Lucy Jane Ward (Autor)

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2016
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8977-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, Lucy Jane Ward argues that although contemporary scholarship tends to divide Agnes Heller's work chronologically in terms of her “Marxist” and subsequent “post-Marxist” periods, a closer reading reveals her work as a continuing engagement both with and against Marx's idea of the human being rich in need.

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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 Gyrgy Lukcs. 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 wealthas both motif and methodis 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.

Autor

Lucy Jane Ward teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Inhalt

Introduction: Agnes Heller with and Against Marx Chapter One: The Theory of Need in Marx Chapter Two: Agnes Heller: Marx as Problem and Promise Chapter Three: Heller’s Anthropology of Affects and Feelings Chapter Four: Everyday Life and ValuesChapter Five: A Theory of Modernity: Dissatisfaction and Critique Chapter Six: A Theory of RationalityChapter Seven: Political Modernity and the Problem of JusticeChapter Eight: The Good Life Beyond DutyConclusion: The Good Life and Human Wholeness

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.12.2016
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Arendt • Capitalism • existential choice • Fehér • Fehér • German Idealism • Grumley • Habermas • hermeneutics • History of Philosophy • Kant • Lukács • Lukács • Marxism • Modernity • Philosophical Anthropology • Political Philosophy • political theory • Social Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8977-8 / 0739189778
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8977-1 / 9780739189771