After Thoughts: Beyond the ‘System’ Agnes Heller

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This book is a collection of Agnes Heller’s recent occasional lectures delivered all over the world. This will include an interpretative introduction on her work and these essays by the author of the most significant intellectual biography of her work). In this essays Heller engages one of her greatest strengths: to discover philosophy within the very flux of contemporary events. These bring together such “hot” topics as refugees, human rights, truth in politics and the contemporary university as well as perennial modern classic issues like the possibility of artistic representation of the Holocaust, is revolution always betrayed? and the possibility of universality in the con contemporary multicultural world, all against our most recent present. Heller’s most recent essays written over the last few years take up a range of topical issues in contemporary politics and ethics, key issues in the history of philosophy and critical theory, the future of the university and even in questions of religion and biblical interpretation. Within the great diversity of these essays is Heller’s unique “reflective post-modern” perspective which blends its acute enlightened rationalism tempered by her deep recognition that this task remains always incomplete.

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One of the great contemporary masters of philosophy and most distinguished public intellectual

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