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A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they occurred in the context of challenging life circumstances. Agnes Heller presents the life of her ideas is four stages: the first, 'years of apprenticeship, ' details both the pre- and post-Hungarian revolution period during which she studied under György Lukács; the second, 'years of dialogue, ' describes the relationships of the 'Budapest school' in terms of their shared work and contributions; the third, 'years of building and intervention, ' gives insight into important works written while living in Australia, along with Agnes Heller's political engagements during this period; and finally, the fourth, 'years of wandering, ' describes the various projects Agnes Heller has undertaken as a world-traveler at conferences since the departure of her late husband, Ferenc Fehér

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Classic Paradigm -- 1 The Theory of Need in Marx -- 2 Marx and Modernity -- 3 The Legacy of Marxian Ethics -- 4 The Sphinx of the Revolution -- 5 Marx and the Permanent French Revolutions -- 6 Marx and Justice -- 7 Marx and the "Liberation of Humankind" -- II. Orthodoxy and Negativity -- 8 The Unknown Masterpiece -- 9 Lukács in Weimar -- 10 Historical Novel and History in Lukács -- 11 Lukács and Benjamin: Parallels and Contrasts -- 12 Lukács, Benjamin, Theater -- 13 Lukács and the Holy Family -- 14 Adorno and the Vicissitudes of Rationalized Music -- 15 Weber and the Rationalization of Music -- 16 Group Interest, Collective Consciousness, and the Role of the Intellectual in Lukács and Goldmann -- 17 Lucien Goldmann as the "Recipient" of Lukács -- 18 Can Poetry Be Written After the Holocaust? (On Adorno's Dictum) -- III. The Disintegration of the Paradigm -- 19 Decision as Will or as Choice -- 20 Beyond Political Theology? -- 21 Hannah Arendt on the "Vita Contemplativa" -- 22 The Positivism Debate as a Turning Point in German Postwar Theory -- 23 Habermas and Marxism -- 24 The Discourse Ethics of Habermas: Critique and Appraisal -- 25 With Castoriadis to Aristotle -- from Aristotle to Kant -- from Kant to Us -- 26 Castoriadis and the Redefinition of Socialism -- 27 Sociology as the Defetishization of Modernity -- 28 On "Strong Coding" in Philosophy -- 29 The Status of Postmodernity -- 30 Between Relativism and Fundamentalism: Hermeneutic as Europe's Mainstream Political and Moral Tradition -- Index.

ABSTRACT: The story of Hungary can also serve as a warning for other nation-states on the European continent, as the years from 1989 to 1991 were a time of liberation for all the people of Eastern Europe who suffered from totalitarian political systems and ideological indoctrination. As the Bible teaches and Hannah Arendt warns, liberation is not yet liberty. The institutions of liberty have to be constituted, and people need to learn how to make them work while breathing spirit into them. Tyrannies always collapse, but whether Hungarians can escape with enough means for a new start remains to be seen.

Although contemporary historical novels share a number of features with the traditional historical novel, as analysed by Lukács (1981) , they display a fundamental change in the perception of history, evident in the disappearance of the omniscient narrator, in their choice of significant and representative figures, and scepticism regarding teleology of history or the world-historical role of war and violence. On the one hand, history has become a riddle, and this is reflected in the preference for the form of the detective novel, for which the model is The Name of the Rose ( Eco 1983 ). On the other hand, there is a clear preference for two historical periods: the collapse of the ancient world and the birth of the modern from the Renaissance to the 18th century.