| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1 The Theory of Need in Marx; 2 Agnes Heller; 3 Heller's Anthropology of Affects and Feelings; 4 Towards a Theory of Everyday Life and Values; 5 A Theory of Modernity; 6 A Theory of Rationality; 7 Political Modernity and the Problem of Justice; 8 The Good Life Beyond Duty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Heller, Ágnes.
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Heller, Ágnes. |
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. |
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Philosophy, Hungarian -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Hungarian. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ward, Lucy Jane. Freedom and dissatisfaction in the works of Agnes Heller. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016 9780739189764 073918976X (DLC) 2016050869 |
| ISBN |
9780739189771 (electronic book) |
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0739189778 (electronic book) |
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9780739189764 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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073918976X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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