This 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 comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, ...

This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with what Agnes Heller distinguishes between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one—inspired by Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty—and ending ...

A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives.

This collection highlights these pitfalls in the context of continuing possibilities for aesthetics and our relationship with works of art, and it throws light on Heller's theory of emotions and feelings and her theory of modernity.

A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career.

The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of need What are needs?

"Can Modernity Survive? is bound to become the centre and the starting point of all future discourse on modernity."--Zygmunt Bauman

Immortal Comedy is the first book to "think" philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general.

The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems.

This is a philosophical guide to the post-modern historical consciousness. In the post modern age, Agnes Heller argues, we see outselves as dwellers in the prisonhouse of the contemporary.