Introduction: the Budapest School and its legacies : migration, modernity, philosophy / Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell -- A school? : or its homecoming in migration -- The Budapest School : travelling theory? / Peter Beilharz -- Learning from the Budapest School women / Pauline Johnson -- Criticism and aesthetics : Ferenc Fehér’s views on art / Sandor Radnoti -- From critique of totalitarianism to critique of political modernity -- The Budapest School on totalitarianism : toward a new version of critical theory / Waldemar Bulira -- The critical power of needs : the radical potential in Márkus’s and Heller's philosophical anthropology / Aaron Jaffe -- Praxis beyond the political : György Márkus contra Hannah Arendt / Jonathan Pickle -- Pathways to the "open utopia" : Heller and Fehér on Lukács' messianic marxism / Michael Gardiner -- Adventures in biopolitics / John Grumley -- The absolute present of historical consciousness : Ágnes Heller between the postmodern and the contemporary / David Roberts -- Critical theories of the Budapest School : reflections on Márkus and Heller -- Philosophy in the times of late modernity : reflections on GyÖrgy Márkus culture, science, society / Janos Kis --Ágnes Heller's theory of action : the incompleteness of the human being / John Rundell -- Ágnes Heller and the Kantian imaginary / Marcia Morgan -- Existential choice as existential comedy : Ágnes Heller's Wager / Katie Terezakis -- The comic political condition : Ágnes Heller's philosophy of laughter and liberty / Peter Murphy -- The image of the "good friend" in Heller : a bridge between everyday life and transcendence / Sergio Mariscal -- Index.