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Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative New Edition
Author(s): Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Author)
- Publisher: Verso
- Publication Date: 17 Jun. 2000
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1859840094
- ISBN-13: 9781859840092
Book Description
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is widely regarded as one of the leading social thinkers of our time. In Democracy Realized Unger gives detailed content to a progressive and practical alternative to both neoliberalism and institutionally conservative social democracy. His efforts to inspire and develop this alternative have drawn increasing attention throughout the world as well as in his native Brazil.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s project is breathtaking … He is writing what may be the most powerful social theory of the second half of the century.”–Geoffrey Hawthorn
“A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the First.”–Perry Anderson
“[Unger] does not make moves in any game we know how to play … [His] book will 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
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.
