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Portrait of Ágnes Heller

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ágnes Heller

Hungarian philosopher and academic

1929 – 2019aged 90

A Hungarian philosopher and core member of the Budapest School, the circle of thinkers who developed a humanist critique of Marxism from inside a Communist state. She later spent 25 years teaching political theory at the New School for Social Research in New York before returning to live, write and lecture in Budapest.

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