<p>Heller and Feher analyse the causes of changes in the vocabulary of politics, summarizing the result in the term 'postmodern political condition'. The authors focus on a variety of processes, including the breakdown of the political narrative--identified by some as the end of ideology; the forms of morality which can operate within democratic politics today; and the role of political, social and cultural movements. All this is located within the framework of the decline of Europe as a cultural and political centre, and within the discourse of political philosophy.</p>

The Postmodern Political Condition

Politics & Social Sciences

Heller, Ágnes

Fehér, Ferenc

Philosophy

Columbia University Press

Three prominent members of the Budapest School present an analysis which is at once a personal statement and an authoritative critique of Soviet dominated regimes. They discuss the dynamics of the system they define as "dictatorship over need".

Dictatorship over Needs

Markus, Gyorgy

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Theory of Need in Marx

Business & Money

St.Martin's Press

<p>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.</p>

Can Modernity Survive?

University of California Press

A radical philosophy

B. Blackwell

Book by Feher, Ferenc, Heller, Agnes, Markus, Gyorgy

Dictatorship over Needs: An Analysis of Soviet Societies

Blackwell Pub.

`This valuable collection makes available the scattered writings of the now dispersed Budapest School ...`Reconstructing Aesthetics' will be required reading for everyone interested in the creative application of heterodox Marxist Aesthetic Theory.' Leo Lowenthal, University of California, Berkeley.

Reconstructing Aesthetics: Writings of the Budapest School

Arts & Photography

The author analyzes the nature of philosophical activity to show how questions of value still constitute the core of philosophy, and to make plain the choices and obligations these questions impose. The book begins by showing the world's need for a changed philosophy; it ends by showing how philosophy needs a changed world, a world in which humanity can be at home. Thus it is a statement of a radical philosophy and a philosophy for radicals - based unashamedly on a commitment to both morality and pluralism.

Radical Philosophy

Beyond Justice

Basil Blackwell

This is an attempt to present a theory of morals that is broad but specific, non-reductive but coherent. The author's approach is governed by the question: "good persons exist - how are they possible?". It explores what is good, or has been considered to be good within various normative systems of belief. Central to this method is the author's premise that our social world view is constructed around a hierarchy of ethical norms. Ethics are therefore a condition of our world, because our presence in the world is governed by social meanings which are the instruments of social regulation. The author explores the social corollaries of this grounding of ethics in the normative categories of our social "life-world". Analyzing central concepts of ethics (such as voluntary actions, responsibility, consequences, justice, as well as wider notions of moral authority and mental states), she aims to provide a grounding for a general theory of morals.

General Ethics

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