Politics: Volume 2, Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory - Couverture souple

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

 
9780521338646: Politics: Volume 2, Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521338646 ISBN 13 : 9780521338646
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Unger Roberto Mangabeira

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 capacity.

Unger pursues this topic through wide-ranging historical inquiries into the European escape from the recurring crises that foreclosed political and economic breakthroughs in the great empires of the past; the invention of revolutionary approaches to the governmental protection of wealth; and the social conditions of military success, viewed as sources of insight into the social foundations of economic growth. Throughout, Plasticity into Power exemplifies a conception of the relation between theory and history that remains faithful to the surprising, open-ended quality of lived experience.

Revue de presse

“[Unger] does not make moves in any game we know how to play ... [His] book may someday make possible a new national romance ... [It] will help the literate ... citizens of some country to see vistas where before they saw only dangers—see a hitherto undreamt-of national future ...”—Richard Rorty

“A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First.”—Perry Anderson

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1987
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521338646
ISBN 13 
9780521338646
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
238
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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