A radical re-envisioning of the human condition
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers in the world today. He is active in Brazilian public life and has served twice as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs, charged with developing initiatives that signal a direction for his country. A polymath, he has written widely in legal, political, economic, and moral theory as well as in natural philosophy. Among his major writings are Passion: An Essay on Personality, a modernist view of human nature; False Necessity, a radical alternative to Marxist social theory; and, most recently, The Knowledge Economy, a study of the unrealized potential of the new vanguard of production. The World and Us is the capstone of his lifework.
A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of
modernity itself
*New York Times*
One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of
the great philosophers of the past.
*Times Higher Education*
Unger stakes out new discursive space that is neither simply left
nor liberal, Marxist nor Lockean, anarchist nor Kantian . . . an
emancipatory experimentalism toward ever-increasing democracy and
individual freedom
*Cornel West*
Here something new has occurred: a philosophical mind out of the
Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the
First.
*Perry Anderson*
What makes Unger different is his orientation toward the future
rather than the past-his hopefulness.
*Richard Rorty*
Unger insists on the need to refocus on what really matters, the
human spirit.
*Financial Times*
Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill. A political philosopher
extraordinaire.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
Through a 49-year career spanning politics, law, social and
political theory and philosophy, Unger has put forward a collection
of searching inquiries meant to pierce the liberal mythos of
necessary progress. Across dozens of books, including the recently
published metaphysical tome The World and Us, the Brazilian
philosopher has tried to think beyond 20th-century categories
through a series of questions.
*UnHerd*
The World and Us ruminates deeply while maintaining a readability
often lacking in specialized, academic philosophy. Unger has
written a book for the rest of us, after all. If he seeks our
understanding, it's only so we might enjoy a better life ahead.
*The Washington Independent Review of Books*
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