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False Necessity

Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy

By Roberto Mangabeira Unger

By Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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Nov 17, 2004 | ISBN 9781859843314

False Necessity by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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About False Necessity

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.

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Category: Domestic Politics

Paperback | $24.95
Published by Verso
Nov 17, 2004 | 792 Pages | 5-2/5 x 8-7/10 | ISBN 9781859843314
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“[Unger] does not make moves in any game we know how to play … [His] book may someday make possible a new national romance … [It] will help the literate … citizens of some country to see vistas where before they saw only dangers—see a hitherto undreamt-of national future …”—Richard Rorty

“A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the First.”—Perry Anderson

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