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Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task (Politics, Volume 2)
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 2004

Social theory: its situation and its task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements ...

Politics: The Central Texts, Theory Against Fate

1 review
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 1997

the future is an open project
Robeto Unger's 'Politics', written earlier than Francis Fukuyama's much hyped 'The End of History and The Last Man',as also, earlier than the final collapse of the of the Soviet Union in 1991, is at once a statement of the alternatives to Soviet communism and a proto-critque of postmodern pessimism epitomized by Fukuyama.In the books comprising 'Politics', Unger offers a convincing critique of ...

The Critical Legal Studies Movement
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Harvard University Press, 1986

What Should the Left Propose?

1 review
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 2006

Good Magazine Article
This is a good magazine article disguised as a book by stating each argument and insight 4 times over. Too bad it keeps saying the same thing over and over, because this tends to encourage brain death by the 50th page. The ideas buried within are pretty simple and not completely unworthy of consideration --- the so-called Left, if there still is one, should spend its energies expanding small ...

Law in Modern Society
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Free Press, 1977

Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics

2 reviews
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Princeton University Press, 2007

The deepest critic of the "globalization", "free trade".
This book worth its weight because Mangabeira Unger reclaims Marx's category - Market-value (Das Kapital, chapter 10, vol. III) - which has been untouched till the present day, and this category does revert the predomination of the market-price. Mangabeira Unger makes the deepest critic of the "globalization", "commodification" by bringing up, indirectly, this Marxist category that also ...

False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, Revised Edition ...
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 2004

Volume 1 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory. Newly available, the complete work of Politics ?a program for a comprehensive progressive alternative to the dominant ideologies of social democracy and neo-liberalism?from one of the world?s leading social and political thinkers. False necessity is the central theme in the three-volume series Politics. It presents both a way of explaining society and a program for ...

Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative

2 reviews
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 2000

Recommended book with one flaw
Unger is a proactive progressive who does not want to sit idle when the world is being taken over by currency speculators, multinational investors, and global mutual fund managers, what Thomas Friedman calls the 'electronic herd'. Unger's substantive plea needs to be heeded by every right-thinking denizen of this planet. Unger is in serious error, howewer, in one important aspects of his ...

What Should Legal Analysis Become

1 review
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 1996

Always worth trying
To understand this brief book requires some impression to the origin of the author, Brazil. Unger comes from a upper-middle class Brazilian family of politicians. In this gigantic and once colonized state, economic and social problems are never too few, especially the great gap between the priviledged and the under- priviledged. Various programs, reformative or revolutionary, hence appear in the ...

The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound

1 review
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Harvard University Press, 2007

Provides inspiration more than guidelines
I feel like I gained a lot personally from The Self Awakened. On a larger political and economic level, I think its guidelines fall short of its wonderful spiritual and philosophical message. Unger's basic spiritual stance is very compelling: that each person (and each society as a whole) can reach out beyond the assumptions and limits within which we live. I think this is a valuable impetus ...

Plasticity Into Power (Politics, Volume 3)
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Verso, 2004

Plasticity into power works out, through historical examples, a major theme of Unger's work--the relation between institutional and organizational flexibility and the development of our collective ability to produce or to destroy. The message of the book is that the practical success of a society depends on its capacity for permanent innovation. Certain practices and institutions--the history and content of which Unger explores--can nurture this ...

Passion: An Essay on Personality
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Free Press, 1986

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