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Zusatztext “A good book to stir up leftists.”—Tyler Cowen! Bloomberg Business Week “Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s book may someday make possible a new national romance ... a hitherto undreamt-of national future.”—Richard Rorty “A restless visionary.”— New York Times “A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning tables! to become a synoptist and seer of the First.”—Perry Anderson “Brazil’s answer to John Stuart Mill ... a political philosopher extraordinaire.”— Chronicle of Higher Education “This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them.”—Neal Lawson! Chair of Compass Informationen zum Autor Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and political thinkers in the world today. He is also active in Brazilian public life and has served twice as Brazil’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, charged with developing initiatives that signal a direction for the country. Verso has published much of his work: in philosophy ( The Religion of the Future), in social theory ( False Necessity, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task, and Plasticity into Power), in political economy ( The Knowledge Economy), and in legal theory ( What Should Legal Analysis Become?). Klappentext A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Zusammenfassung Confronting major debates about national alternatives and alternative globalizations! this book shows that there are a set of changes that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand.
About the author
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.
