Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

Legal Theory & Systems

The Free Press

Roberto Unger's second book Law in Modern Society is quite the handful. The author discusses legal theories and the evolution our legal system to its current form

Law in Modern Society

Legal Education

Free Press

Examines the modern view of human nature and analyzes the desire to be accepted by other people

Passion: An Essay on Personality

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Free Pr

Examines the modern view of human nature and analyzes the desire to be accepted by other people.

Politics: Volume 3: Social Theory: Its Situation and its Task: a Critical Introduction to Politics: a Work in Constructive Social Theory

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy

Plasticity into Power works out, through historical examples, a major theme of Unger’s work—the relation between institutional and organizational flexibility and the development of our collective ability to produce or to destroy. The message of the book is that the practical success of a society depends on its capacity for permanent innovation. Certain practices and institutions—the history and content of which Unger explores—can nurture this capacity.Unger pursues this topic through wide-ranging historical inquiries into the European escape from the recurring crises that foreclosed political and economic breakthroughs in the great empires of the past; the invention of revolutionary approaches to the governmental protection of wealth; and the social conditions of military success, viewed as sources of insight into the social foundations of economic growth. Throughout, Plasticity into Power exemplifies a conception of the relation between theory and history that remains faithful to the surprising, open-ended quality of lived experience.

Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory

Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity.  Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society about what it is and what it can become. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility.

Politics, Vol. 3: Social Theory- Its Situation and Its Task- A Critical Introduction to Politics- A Work in Constructive Social Theory (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Volume 1 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.False necessity is the central work 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.

False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory, Part I)

Politics: Volume 2, Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory

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Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory

Law in Modern Society

Passion: An Essay on Personality

Passion: An Essay on Personality

Politics: Volume 3: Social Theory: Its Situation and its Task: a Critical Introduction to Politics: a Work in Constructive Social Theory

False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy

Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory

Politics, Vol. 3: Social Theory- Its Situation and Its Task- A Critical Introduction to Politics- A Work in Constructive Social Theory (Cambridge Paperback Library)

False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory, Part I)

Politics: Volume 2, Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success: A Work in Constructive Social Theory