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Newly available, the complete work of Politics…a program for a comprehensive progressive alternative to the dominant ideologies of social democracy and neo-liberalism…from one of the world’s leading social and political thinkers.
False necessity is the central theme in the three-volume series Politics. It presents both a way of explaining society and a program for changing it. The explanation develops a radical alternative to Marxism, showing how we can account for established social arrangements without denying their contingency or our freedom. The program offers a progressive alternative to the now-dominant ideological conceptions of neoliberalism and social democracy: a set of institutional innovations that would democratize markets, deepen democracy and empower individuals.
For this new edition, Unger has written a comprehensive introduction that explores the limits of our understanding of society and our practice of politics, and reconsiders proposals contained in the book as special cases of a larger family of untried political possibilities.
“[Unger] does not make moves in any game we know how to play …[His] book may 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
“A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the First.” … Perry Anderson
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is Professor of Law at Harvard University and a political activist in Brazil. His books include What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Politics: The Central Texts, and Democracy Realized.
Nov. 2004
800 pages
Paper
1 85984 331 X
US$14 / £19 / CAN$28
Also from Verso: Volumes 2 and 3 of Politics
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task
Plasticity into Power