Can Modernity Survive?

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. 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.

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. "Can Modernity Survive? is bound to become the centre and the starting point of all future discourse on modernity."
—Zygmunt Bauman