Can Modernity Survive

1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-7456-0798-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 291 g

Can Modernity Survive? displays the full range of Heller's formidable talents for social and philosophical analysis. The papers collected together here provide an integrated statement of her distinctive position concerning the fate of humankind as we approach the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Agnes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hermaneutics of Social Sciences

Can Everyday life be Endangered?

Death of the Subject

Do we live in a World of Emotional Impoverishment?

What is, and What is not, Practical Reason

The Concept of the Political

Freedom and Happiness in Kant's Political Philosophy

Rights, Modernity and Democracy

Moses, Hsuan-Tsung and History.

Über Autor(innen)

Agnes Heller is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of numerous works, including On Instincts; Renaissance Man; The Power of Shame: A Rational Perspective; Beyond Justice; and General Ethics.