False Necessity Anti Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (volume1)
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publish date: 10/01/2004
Description:
This new edition of False Necessity marks the beginning of Verso's reissuing of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's major works in political and social thought, first published under the collective title Politics.
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False Necessity presents an explanatory theory of society and a programme for social reconstruction. Unger develops a radical alternative to Marxism, showing how we can explain history without denying its contingency or our freedom. He offers a progressive alternative to the now dominant ideological conceptions of neoliberalism and social democracy, exploring institutional innovations that can democratise markets 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.
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