Plasticity into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success - Softcover

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521338646 ISBN 13: 9780521338646

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Power

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Review:

[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 a synoptist and seer of the First. --Perry Anderson

"[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 a synoptist and seer of the First."--Perry Anderson

About the Author:

Widely regarded as one of the world's leading social and political thinkers, Roberto Mangabeira Unger is Professor of Law at Harvard University and active in Brazilian politics. With Verso he has published What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Politics: The Central Texts and Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521338646
• ISBN 13: 9780521338646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238