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Social Theory Vol. 3 : Its Situation and Its Task by Roberto Mangabeira Unger (2004, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101844675157

ISBN-139781844675159

eBay Product ID (ePID)30779718

Product Key Features

Book TitleSocial Theory Vol. 3 : Its Situation and Its Task

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicMilitary Science, Sociology / General, History & Theory

GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science

AuthorRoberto Mangabeira Unger

Book SeriesPolitics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-277227

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Politics sours into the rarefied stratosphere of social theory, striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself. Mr. Unger is thus best understood in relation to contemporaries who reach for similar heights, such as European thinkers Hans Blumenberg, Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault."- New York Times, 'eoePolitics sours into the rarefied stratosphere of social theory, striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself. Mr. Unger is thus best understood in relation to contemporaries who reach for similar heights, such as European thinkers Hans Blumenberg, J&u¨rgen Habermas and Michel Foucault.'e�

Dewey Decimal301

SynopsisSocial 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberJA76