Agnes Heller† (1929–2019) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. She published over 40 books and over 300 articles.John Grumley, Ph.D. (University of Sydney, 1986) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published two single-authored books, five edited books and journals and over forty single-authored articles in international journals in the main areas of critical theory, biopolitics, and social and political philosophy. His published monographs are History and Totality (Routledge, 1989, 2017) and Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Flux of History (Pluto Press, 2005). Director of the Márkus Archive.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionpart 1: Political1 Are All Revolutions Betrayed?2 Truth in Politics3 Progress, Regress and Human Rights4 Cosmopolitanism as Philosophy, Refuge, and Destiny5 Are There Obligations without Rights?6 On the Concept of ‘Care’7 In Praise of Imperfectionpart 2: Cultural8 Is Representation of the Holocaust Possible?9 Past, Present and Future of Universities10 Is the Language of Philosophy in a State of Crisis?11 Reflections on the Dynamics of Personal Identity in Modernity12 The ‘End of Philosophy’ (Four Times) or Karl Marx as a German Philosopher13 Nietzsche on Dreams14 What Went Wrong with the Religion of Reason?15 De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice of the Will)16 Fathers and Sons in the Bible17 Infinity as Concept and as ImaginationBibliographyIndex