This selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's
three-volume Politics presents an explanatory theory of society and
a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative to
Marxism and social democracy. The explanatory part of the work
rejects the search for a lawlike science of society and history,
and emphasizes the haphazardness and replaceability of existing
social arrangements. Unger shows how such an antideterministic
approach can inspire surprising explanations of past and present
institutions, with the result that our sense of the possible is
both broadened and refined. He then shows how we can rebuild our
political, economic, and social institutions, making them more
faithful to the experimental nature of democracy. The consequence
is to redefine the focus for ideological debate and institutional
innovation throughout the world, in developed and developing
countries alike. With an introduction that locates Unger's work in
the history of politics and social theory and explores its major
themes, this selection will confirm Geoffrey Hawthorn's description
of Politics as "the most powerful social theory of the second half
of the twentieth century."
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