Telling the truth: Heller as philosopher of history and personality

Thesis Eleven 125 (1):16-31 (2014)
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In this essay, I reconstruct Heller’s philosophy of history, arguing both that Heller’s position presents a serious intervention into modern theorizing about historical patternicity and that Heller’s position should be understood as a valuable hybrid, uniting her existential, ethical, and pragmatic bodies of work. For Heller, history is implicated indissolubly in the personal and ethical decision-making of individual actors. I conclude that Heller undermines postmodern claims about the relativism of history and scientific progress, notwithstanding initial appearances to the contrary.

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General ethics.Agnes Heller - 1988 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
An ethics of personality.Agnes Heller - 1996 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
A philosophy of history in fragments.Agnes Heller - 1993 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
A philosophy of morals.Agnes Heller - 1990 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.

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