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Author Rundell, John, editor

Title Critical Theories and the Budapest School : Politics, Culture, Modernity / editors, Pickle, Jonathan
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Contents Introduction: the Budapest School and its legacies : migration, modernity, philosophy / Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell -- A school? : or its homecoming in migration -- The Budapest School : travelling theory? / Peter Beilharz -- Learning from the Budapest School women / Pauline Johnson -- Criticism and aesthetics : Ferenc Fehér's views on art / Sandor Radnoti -- From critique of totalitarianism to critique of political modernity -- The Budapest School on totalitarianism : toward a new version of critical theory / Waldemar Bulira -- The critical power of needs : the radical potential in Márkus's and Heller's philosophical anthropology / Aaron Jaffe -- Praxis beyond the political : György Márkus contra Hannah Arendt / Jonathan Pickle -- Pathways to the "open utopia" : Heller and Fehér on Lukács' messianic marxism / Michael Gardiner -- Adventures in biopolitics / John Grumley -- The absolute present of historical consciousness : Ágnes Heller between the postmodern and the contemporary / David Roberts -- Critical theories of the Budapest School : reflections on Márkus and Heller -- Philosophy in the times of late modernity : reflections on GyÖrgy Márkus culture, science, society / Janos Kis -- Ágnes Heller's theory of action : the incompleteness of the human being / John Rundell -- Ágnes Heller and the Kantian imaginary / Marcia Morgan -- Existential choice as existential comedy : Ágnes Heller's Wager / Katie Terezakis -- The comic political condition : Ágnes Heller's philosophy of laughter and liberty / Peter Murphy -- The image of the "good friend" in Heller : a bridge between everyday life and transcendence / Sergio Mariscal -- Index
Summary "Critical 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 prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and nuanced critiques of modernity offered by this school, informed as its members' insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet-type societies and the liberal-democratic West. With studies of topics central to contemporary critical theory, such as the political and historical consciousness of modernity; the importance of bio-politics; the complexity of the human condition; and the relevance of comedy and friendship for developing critical perspectives, the authors draw on the works of Ágnes Heller, Maria Márkus, György Márkus and Ferenc Fehér, demonstrating their enduring relevance to critical theory today and the ways in which their thought can inform new perspectives on culture and politics. An innovative re-assessment of the Budapest School and the importance of its legacy, this book opens a much-needed and neglected dialogue with other schools and traditions of critical theorizing which will be of interest to scholars of sociology, philosophy and social theory."--Provided by publisher
Subject Heller, Agnes -- Political and social views
Márkus, Mária -- Political and social views
Márkus, György, 1934-2016 -- Political and social views
Fehér, Ferenc, 1933-1994 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Fehér, Ferenc, 1933-1994 fast
Heller, Ágnes fast
Márkus, György, 1934-2016 fast
Márkus, Mária fast
Subject Critical theory -- Hungary
Critical theory
Political and social views
Hungary
Form Electronic book
Author Pickle, Jonathan, editor
ISBN 9781315472454
1315472457