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

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521338638 ISBN 13: 9780521338639

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. He is also active in Brazilian politics. Verso has published much of his work: False Necessity: Antinecessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative, Politics, and The Left Alternative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521338638
• ISBN 13: 9780521338639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 670