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The Left Alternative 2nd Edition
Author(s): Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Author)
- Publisher: Verso
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 2009
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1844673707
- ISBN-13: 9781844673704
Book Description
A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the world today about national alternatives and alternative globalizations Unger shows that there are a set of changes that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, Unger s argument is not a blueprint but a rallying call for alternative forms of change.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Brazil’s answer to John Stuart Mill… a political philosopher extraordinaire. –Chronicle of Higher Education
A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First. –Perry Anderson
This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them. –Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass
About the Author
ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. Previously a professor at Harvard Law School, he is now Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil. His books include False Necessity, What Should Legal Analysis Become? and Democracy Realized.
