Politics, Volume 2 - Social Theory - Its Situation and Its Task

Zusatztext “ Politics sours into the rarefied stratosphere of social theory! striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself. Mr. Unger is thus best understood in relation to contemporaries who reach for similar heights! such as European thinkers Hans Blumenberg! Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault.”— New York Times Informationen zum Autor Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and political thinkers in the world today. Verso has published much of his writing. The Knowledge Economy applies to the analysis of our economic present and future a way of thinking prefigured in his earlier book, Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics , as well as in his central work in social theory, False Necessity . Klappentext Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory. Zusammenfassung Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities! however! we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society - about what it is and what it can become.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
• Assisted by: Verso (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2004
• EAN: 9781844675159
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-515-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Politics; Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education