Politics: The Central TextsVerso, 17 de abr. de 1997 - 464 páginas 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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The Circumstance of Social Theory | 3 |
3222 | 19 |
Stability and Destabilization in the Working of Formative | 150 |
Negative Capability and Plasticity into Power | 172 |
A ProtoTheory | 227 |
In Quest of Power and In Power | 263 |
Constitutional Reorganization | 306 |
Economic Reorganization | 340 |
Four Rights | 367 |
The CulturalRevolutionary Counterpart to the Institutional | 399 |
The Idea of the Transformative Vocation | 413 |
The Spirit | 423 |
437 | |
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activity agrarian alternative antinaturalistic assumptions basic central classical liberal closed list communal conception conflict consolidated property constitutional constraints contrast corporatist decentralization deep-logic deep-structure social theory defined democratic depends destabilization disentrenchment distinctive division and hierarchy economic elites empowered democracy empowerment enterprises entrenched established experience explanation explanatory False Necessity force formative context formative institutional framework functional explanation functionalist governmental power group interests human association idea ideal individual industrial influence institutional and imaginative institutional arrangements labor leftist liberal marginalist market economy Marxist military mode of production movement mythical history negative capability oligarchies opportunities organizational particular party petty political possible privilege problem program of empowered programmatic argument property rights radical project reconstruction redistribution reform regime relations relatively representative democracies represents revision revolutionary role routine sense social democracy social division social order social world society stability structure struggle style technological tion traditional Unger's vision Western