Written by one of the most influential figures in post-World-War-II social thought, "A Theory of Modernity" is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity, which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism.
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.