This valuable collection makes available the scattered writings of the now dispersed Budapest School ...Reconstructing Aesthetics' will be required reading for everyone interested in the creative application of heterodox Marxist Aesthetic Theory.' Leo Lowenthal, University of California, Berkeley.
Ágnes Heller was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She lived, wrote and lectured in Budapest.