The theory of need in Marx

Agnes Heller

Verso - London

2018

What are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upon various mechanisms designed to satisfy “human needs,” not many economists have addressed the idea of need itself. Heller’s highly original work identifies this lacuna, recognizing the concept of needs as playing a “hidden but principal role in Marx’s economic categories.

Un'etica della personalita

Agnes Heller

Laura Boella, Andrea Vestrucci, Chiara Zancan (eds)

Mimesis - Milano

2018

Un’etica della personalità costituisce il volume conclusivo – dopo Etica generale e Filosofia morale – della trilogia Una teoria della morale, con la quale Ágnes Heller ha compiuto il suo “quasi-sistema” fi losofi co. Il libro si apre con l’analisi dell’etica della personalità di Nietzsche, trattata in Genealogia della morale e messa in rapporto con il Parsifal di Wagner, di cui viene proposta una nuova lettura.

A theory of history

Agnes Heller

Routledge - London

2016

This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations that the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems.

Renaissance man

Agnes Heller

Routledge - London

2015

Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon, Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man. The concept was generalised and accepted by all; its characteristic features were man as a dynamic being, creating and re-creating himself throughout his life.

Everyday life

Agnes Heller

Routledge - London

2015

This book, first published in 1984, examines the politics and philosophy of ordinary men and women, and their ordinary transactions. It analyses the interaction between the individual and the social, both for the roots of everyday behaviour and for the means to change the social fabric.