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Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843314
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book False Necessity written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book False Necessity--anti-necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)
Download or read book False Necessity written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338639
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)
Download or read book False Necessity written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-28 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher :
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Politics, a Work in Constructive Social Theory: False necessity, anti-necessitarian social theory in the service of radical democracy written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082785X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Free Trade Reimagined written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He suggests, by example as well as by theory, a way of understanding contemporary economies that is both more realistic and more revealing of hidden possibilities for transformation than are the established forms of economics. One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization; we can have a different globalization. Traditional free trade doctrine rests on shaky empirical and theoretical ground. Unger takes a new approach to show when international trade is likely to be useful or harmful to the socially inclusive economic growth that every nation wants. Another message is that the movement of people and ideas is more important than the movement of things and money, and that freedom to change the institutions defining a market economy is just as important as freedom to exchange goods on the basis of those institutions. Free Trade Reimagined ranges broadly within and outside economics. Presenting technical issues in plain language, it appeals to the general reader. It puts a disciplined imagination in the service of rebellion against the dictatorship of no alternatives that characterizes life and thought today.
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789609771
Total Pages : 1247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book False Necessity written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605091
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Left Alternative written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the major debates in the world today-about national alternatives and alternative globalizations-Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.
Author : Don Herzog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226329253
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Happy Slaves written by Don Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So persuasive now as to be nearly invisible, consent theory posits humans as free agents, in whose individual choices must be sought the origin of political and social institutions. Herzog (political science, U. of Michigan) traces the birth of the theory to England in the 1600's, when the holistic view of society was becoming untenable. Very wittily written, and interesting to the general reader as well as the historian and social scientist. Paperback edition unseen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roger Sibeon
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761950691
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Social Theory written by Roger Sibeon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-03-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and explores unresolved controversies and ambiguities in present day sociological theorizing.
Author : Robert Gooding-Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053893
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of Du Bois written by Robert Gooding-Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois’s outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, “What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to counter white supremacy?” Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois’s thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois’s interpretation of black politics. For Du Bois, writing in a segregated America, a politics capable of countering Jim Crow had to uplift the black masses while heeding the ethos of the black folk: it had to be a politics of modernizing “self-realization” that expressed a collective spiritual identity. Highlighting Du Bois’s adaptations of Gustav Schmoller’s social thought, the German debate over the Geisteswissenschaften, and William Wordsworth’s poetry, Gooding-Williams reconstructs Souls’ defense of this “politics of expressive self-realization,” and then examines it critically, bringing it into dialogue with the picture of African American politics that Frederick Douglass sketches in My Bondage and My Freedom. Through a novel reading of Douglass, Gooding-Williams characterizes the limitations of Du Bois’s thought and questions the authority it still exerts in ongoing debates about black leadership, black identity, and the black underclass. Coming to Bondage and then to these debates by looking backward and then forward from Souls, Gooding-Williams lets Souls serve him as a productive hermeneutical lens for exploring Afro-Modern political thought in America.
Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780871
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Unexceptional Politics written by Emily Apter and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a new mode of dialectical resistance, countering notions of the "state of exception" embedded in theories of the "Political" from Thomas Hobbes to Carl Schmitt. Apter advances a critical model of micro-politics, or "politics with a small 'p,'" that offers a way of representing a politics that has generally eluded our conceptual grasp, and that has been unintelligible or resistant to classical political theory. Confronting us with the realization that we really do not know what politics is, where it begins and ends, or how its micro-events should be described, this experimental glossary opens the possibility of confronting the contingent and immaterial conditions of politicking that contribute to disturbance and interference within the institutional structures of our capitalo-parliamentarist systems of rule.
Author : Fred L. Block
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520069889
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Postindustrial Possibilities written by Fred L. Block and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Changing economic realities have outmoded much of traditional economic and social theory. Block has taken an inchoate concept and given it precision and force. His analyses of the new technologies are a major contribution to the revived field of 'economic sociology;' but they also contribute to the ongoing debates on industrial policy and the expansion of democratic decision-making."—Daniel Bell, Harvard University "Block's book marks the coming of age of economic sociology. By challenging the central concepts of neo-classical economics Block allows us to think in new ways about healthy economic growth in the context of a more democratic society. He provides a powerful and hopeful analysis of some of our most daunting problems."—Robert N. Bellah, co-author of Habits of the Heart "Block has undertaken the ambitious task of laying out the possibilities that lie within modern capitalism, but are obscured by the conventional perceptions of its economic structure and institutions. By closely examining these perceptions, ranging from labor and capital to that great tutelary deity, the market, Block enables us to see alternative arrangements for achieving qualitative economic growth. At a time when thinking about the future of advanced capitalism was ever more necessary or more difficult, Postindustrial Possibilities seems to me exactly the clear, critical, and constuctive vision that social theory needs."—Robert L. Heilbroner, New School for Social Research "From start to finish, this original and provocative book is impossible to put down. Postindustrial Possibilities clarifies and makes sense of our contemporary 'great transformation.' In so doing, it not only maps social reality incisively, it also provides a powerful critique of the tools in the kitbag of social science (the superb chapter on the market alone is worth the price of admission). At once normative, historical, and policy-oriented, the book suggests an alternative approach rooted in economic sociology that significantly broadens the scope of discussion about possible futures for the United States."—Ira Katznelson, New School for Social Research "A brilliant book that illuminates both the quandaries and possibilities of postindustrial society. Writing in the tradition of Karl Polyani, Fred Block provides a refreshing antidote to the triumphalism of free market ideology that dominates our era, and also lays the intellectual groundwork for alternative and more humane forms of economic organization."—Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238390X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Materializing Democracy written by Russ Castronovo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume’s editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultural studies, history, legal studies, and political theory, the essays collected here highlight competing definitions and practices of democracy—in politics, society, and, indeed, academia. Covering topics ranging from rights discourse to Native American performance, from identity politics to gay marriage, and from rituals of public mourning to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the contributors seek to understand the practices, ideas, and material conditions that enable or foreclose democracy’s possibilities. Through readings of subjects as diverse as Will Rogers, Alexis de Tocqueville, slave narratives, interactions along the Texas-Mexico border, and liberal arts education, the contributors also explore ways of making democracy available for analysis. Materializing Democracy suggests that attention to disparate narratives is integral to the development of more complex, vibrant versions of democracy. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Chris Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Lisa Duggan, Richard R. Flores, Kevin Gaines, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Michael Moon, Dana D. Nelson, Christopher Newfield, Donald E. Pease
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840092
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Democracy Realized written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unger gives detailed content to a progressive and practical alternative to neoliberalism and institutionally conservative social democracy in a strategy that has drawn increasing attention throughout the world as well as in his native Brazil.
Author : Michael Fielding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136870318
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Radical Education and the Common School written by Michael Fielding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the current mainstream dominated by markets and competition, instrumentality and standardisation, managerialism and technical practice. They argue instead for a radical education with democracy as a fundamental value, care as a central ethic, a person-centred education that is education in the broadest sense, and an image of a child rich in potential. Radical education, they say, should be practiced in the ‘common school’, a school for all children in its local catchment area, age-integrated, human scale, focused on depth of learning and based on team working. A school understood as a public space for all citizens, a collective workshop of many purposes and possibilities, and a person-centred learning community, working closely with other schools and with local authorities. The book concludes by examining how we might bring such transformation about. Written by two of the leading experts in the fields of early childhood and secondary education, the book covers a wide vista of education for children and young people. Vivid examples from different stages of education are used to explore the full meaning of radical democratic education and the common school and how they can work in practice. It connects rich thinking and experiences from the past and present to offer direction and hope for the future. It will be of interest and inspiration to all who care about education - teachers and students, academics and policy makers, parents and politicians.
Author : Jerry D. Leonard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410530
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Legal Studies as Cultural Studies written by Jerry D. Leonard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-01-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inaugural integration of Contemporary Cultural Studies and Critical Legal Studies that sets the question of "justice" at the fore of postmodern critical theory. Opening with introductory-level discussions of key theoretical models in postmodern thought, the collection culminates in a series of radical critiques of existing modes of cultural and legal theory. Contributors to this volume include David S. Caudill, Marie Ashe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nancy Fraser, Costas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington, Drucilla Cornell, Eugene D. Genovese, Peter Goodrich, Teresa L. Ebert, and Jerry D. Leonard.
