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Introduction: The Budapest School and its legacies: migration, modernity, philosophy (Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell) Part I: A School? Or its homecoming in migration 1. The Budapest School – Travelling Theory? (Peter Beilharz) 2. Learning from the Budapest School Women (Pauline Johnson) 3. Criticism and Aesthetics: Ferenc Fehér’s views on art (Sandor Radnoti) Part II: From critique of totalitarianism to critique of political modernity 4. The Budapest School on Totalitarianism. Toward a new version of critical theory (Waldemar Bulira) 5. The Critical Power of Needs: The Radical Potential in Márkus’ and Heller’s Philosophical Anthropology (Aaron Jaffe) 6. Praxis Beyond the Political: György Márkus contra Hannah Arendt (Jonathan Pickle) 7. Pathways to the ‘Open Utopia’: Heller and Fehér on Lukács’ Messianic Marxism (Michael Gardiner) 8. Adventures in Biopolitics (John Grumley) 9. The Absolute Present of Historical Consciousness: Ágnes Heller between the Postmodern and the Contemporary (David Roberts) Part III: Critical Theories of the Budapest School: Reflections on György Márkus and Ágnes Heller 10. Philosophy in the Times of Late Modernity: Reflections on György Márkus’ Culture, Science, Society (Janos Kis) 11. Ágnes Heller’s theory of action: the incompleteness of the human being (John Rundell) 12. Ágnes Heller and the Kantian Imaginary (Marcia Morgan) 13. Existential Choice as Existential Comedy: Ágnes Heller’s Wager (Katie Terezakis) 14. The Comic Political Condition: Ágnes Heller’s Philosophy of Laughter and Liberty (Peter Murphy) 15. The Image of the ‘Good Friend’ in Heller: A Bridge Between Everyday Life and Transcendence (Sergio Mariscal) Index