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"The Concept of the Beautiful evolved out of a lecture course by the same title taught by Agnes Heller at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City during the fall semester of 1994. A manuscript was produced in 1995, roughly modeled on the course, and published by Heller in 1999 in Hungarian. The current edition is a substantively revised and abridged version of the original book for which Heller asked me to serve as editor. Because there is no surviving electronic copy of the manuscript written in 1995 aside from a floppy disk on which only fragments of the files survived, the entire text had to be reproduced from a photocopy of the original draft, comprised of both English and German paragraphs throughout the entire manuscript. This gave me the opportunity to recast the organization of the text as well as to fit the entirety of the work to an English-speaking audience."
-Marcia Morgan, Préface à Agnès Heller, The Concept of the Beautiful, Lexington Books, 2012.
"For Heller, along with Marcuse, countenances a significant transformative capacity integral to the experience of the beautiful. However, it was not until the 1980s and 90s that she gave a more overt pride of place to the concept of the beautiful, as well as to the domain of aesthetics, in her work."
-Marcia Morgan, Essai in Agnès Heller, The Concept of the Beautiful, Lexington Books, 2012.
