Ethics and Heritage Contemporary Hungarian Philosophers Kortárs Magyar Filozófusok Editors/A sorozat szerkesztõi Ferenc András (Pécs) János Boros (Pécs) Zsolt Garai (Pécs) Gábor Szécsi (Budapest) Recent Title Boros János, András Ferenc (szerk.), Képszemantika, hagyomány, mobilkommunikáció Tanulmányok Nyíri Kristóf filozófiájáról (in Hungarian) (Image semantics, Tradition, Mobile Communication. Essays on the philosophy of J. C. Nyíri) Ethics and Heritage Essays on the philosophy of Ágnes Heller Edited by János Boros and Mihály Vajda Brambauer Pécs Published by Brambauer, Pécs, Hungary, 2007 [email protected] © by the Authors 2007 János Boros and Mihály Vajda (eds.) Ethics and Heritage Essays on the Philosophy of Ágnes Heller Heller, Ágnes 1. Heller, Ágnes - Philosophy 2. Ethics. 3. Heritage. 3. Ontology. 4. Political Philosophy. 5. Philosophy of History. 6. Democracy. 7. Republicanism. 8. Tolerance. 9. Individuality. 10. Normativity. 11. Empirism. 12. Beauty. 13. Biopolitics. 14. Gender Studies. 15. Postmodernity. 16. Globalization. 17. Everyday Life. 18. Ancient Greek Philosophy. 19. Plato. 20. Aristotle. 21. Kant. 22. Hegel. 23. Marx. I. Boros, János II. Vajda, Mihály Production Ferenc András Part-Oldalak Kulturális Egylet ISBN 963 86833 0 9 ISSN 1786-6766 DTP and cover design by Ákos Magyari Printed in Hungary, Bornus Ltd. [email protected] This volume contains the papers presented at a conference on Ágnes Heller's Philosophy in the Collegium Budapest, Hungary, 21, 22 May, 2002. Contents BÉLA BACSÓ A Footnote to The Concept of the Beautiful . . . . . . . . 11 JÁNOS BOROS Ethics and Heritage Remarks on the Ethics of Agnes Heller . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ethics as Testimony and Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Agnes Heller’s Kantianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Ethics: The state of the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 ZOLTÁN BRETTER Learning Tolerance. An Esssay Concering Agnes Heller’s Political Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ISTVÁN M. FEHÉR Ethics and Individuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 JOHN GRUMLEY Between the Normative and the Empirical: Heller on the Antinomies of Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Anthropological and Normative Concepts of Culture . . 45 Heller’s Antinomies of Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The Utopia of Cultural Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The Paradoxical Functional Unity of Modern Culture . . . . 52 The Threat of Omnivorous Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Options and Choices: Immanent or Utopian . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ZOLTÁN GYENGE The Concept of Beauty or “die reale Schönheit” . . . . . 63 JUDIT HELL Biopolitics and “gender studies” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 State of modern and postmodern politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Biopolitics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Biopolitics on the ruins of communism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Biopolitics and politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 FERENC L. LENDVAI Postmodernity, Globalization, and Philosophy of History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ALLAN D. MEGILL History-Writing and Moral Judgment: A Note on Chapter Seven of Agnes Heller's A Theory of History(1982) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 GABRIELLA PAOLUCCI “Everyday Life:” a sui generisontology? Some considerations about Agnes Heller’s theory of daily life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 “Tomorrow is already today:” a re-evaluation of everyday life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 A theoretical project versus the ontologies of everyday life . . . 107 Everyday life as self-reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The particular man, alienation and the individual: towards sui generiss ontology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 What is Thomas Mann’s everyday life like? . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The antinomies of autonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 ÁNGEL RIVERO On Agnes Heller’s Republicanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 ERZSÉBET RÓZSA “Psychische Charakter”, emotionelle Persönlichkeit . . . . 139 Psychischer Carakter und Emotionalität in der Studie Theorie der Gefühle von 1978 als philosophische Distanzierung zu dem zeitgenössischen Marxismus . . . . 139