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.
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