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Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher: Verso Books
Imprint: Verso Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.278kg
ISBN: 9781788734981
ISBN 10: 178873498
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 June 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A restless visionary. -New York Times One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past. -Times Higher Education A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First. -Perry Anderson The visionary program this new book sets out for universalizing the knowledge economy is not just a nice-to-have, but necessary. The Knowledge Economy is indispensable as a study of how to remedy the political polarization inequality has brought. -Martin Sandbu, Financial Times An intelligent examination of policy ideas which dare to challenge economic norms. -Ruth F. Hunt, Morning Star Unger's work can offer progressives key resources for exposing the false necessity of the American liberal status quo and thinking constructively about a different progressive vision for the United States. -Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Nation
A restless visionary. * New York Times * The visionary program this new book sets out for universalizing the knowledge economy is not just a nice-to-have, but necessary. The Knowledge Economy is indispensable as a study of how to remedy the political polarization inequality has brought. -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times * One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past. * Times Higher Education Supplement * Unger's work can offer progressives key resources for exposing the false necessity of the American liberal status quo and thinking constructively about a different progressive vision for the United States. -- Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins * The Nation * A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First. -- Perry Anderson Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill ... a political philosopher extraordinaire. * Chronicle of Higher Education * His work may someday make possible a new national romance, and a hitherto undreamt-of national future. -- Richard Rorty
Author Information
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers of the present. He is the author of many titles including including False Necessity, Democracy Realized, The Left Alternative, and The Religion of the Future.
