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Completed shortly before her death in 2019,
Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller's reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe's two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy.
About the author
John Grumley, Ph.D. 1986 (University of Sydney), 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 and
Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Flux of History. He is the director of the Márkus Archive.
David Roberts, Ph.D 1968 (Monash University), is Emeritus Professor in German Studies, Monash University, and Fellow at the Australian Academy of Humanities. His books include
Art and Enlightenment. Aesthetic Theory after Adorno,
The Total Work of Art in European Modernism, and
History of the Present.
Pauline Johnson, is an Associate Professor (honorary) in the Sociology Department at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published four single authored books in critical theory. The most recent
Critique in a Neoliberal Age was published by Routledge in 2020.