The Left Alternative - Softcover

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844673707 ISBN 13: 9781844673704

Publisher: Verso, 2009

Synopsis

One of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today asks the question: What should the Left propose today? A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the world today - about national alternatives and alternative globalizations Unger shows that there are a set of changes that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, Unger's argument is not a blueprint but a rallying call for alternative forms of change.

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Review:

Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill... a political philosopher extraordinaire. --Chronicle of Higher Education

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

This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them. --Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass

About the Author:

ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. Previously a professor at Harvard Law School, he is now Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil. His books include False Necessity, What Should Legal Analysis Become? and Democracy Realized.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844673707
• ISBN 13: 9781844673704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224