Lexington Books
Pages: 242
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-2966-1 • Hardback • February 2009 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
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Agnes Heller is the Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Part 1 Introduction to the Second Edition
Part 2 The Phenomenology of Feelings
Chapter 3 What Does it Mean to Feel
Chapter 4 The Classification of Feelings
Chapter 5 How Do We Learn to Feel?
Chapter 6 Value Orientation and Feelings
Chapter 7 Particularist and Individual Feelings
Part 8 Contributions to the Social Philosophy of Feelings
Chapter 9 Introduction to Part II
Chapter 10 About the Historical Dynamics of the Bourgeois World of Feelings in General
Chapter 11 The Housekeeping of Feelings
Chapter 12 The Abstraction of Feelings and Beyond
Part 13 Epilogue: On Human Suffering
Since its initial publication in 1979, Agnes Heller's A Theory of Feelings has remained an unsurpassed point of reference for understanding this pivotal, if subterranean current of the Western philosophical tradition. Remarkably, in the wake of the postmodern “critique of reason,” Heller's book has become even more timely than when it first appeared. This new edition reinforces Heller's status as one of the most innovative philosophical minds of the last half century.
— Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center