Politics: Volume 3, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task: A Work in Constructive Social Theory - Couverture souple

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

 
9780521338622: Politics: Volume 3, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task: A Work in Constructive Social Theory
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ISBN 10 : 052133862X ISBN 13 : 9780521338622
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Unger Roberto Mangabeira

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 and the vindication of their necessity.

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. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility.

Biographie de l'auteur

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. He is also active in Brazilian politics. Verso has published much of his work: False Necessity: Antinecessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative, Politics, and The Left Alternative.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1987
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052133862X
ISBN 13 
9780521338622
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
263
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ISBN 10 :  1844675157 ISBN 13 :  9781844675159
Editeur : Verso, 2004
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