Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in Legal and social theory.
Verso has published much of his work: False Necessity: Antinecessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative, Politics, and The Left Alternative..
He is also active in Brazilian politics.
About the Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today.
The book exemplifies this connection: Unger\'s arguments are accessible to those with no specialized knowledge of law or Legal theory.
A major concern of the book is to explore how professional specialties such as Legal thought can inform the public debate in a democracy.
The programmatic proposals of Unger\'s Politics are here placed within a wider field of possibilities.
He shows how we can turn Legal Analysis into a way of talking about the alternative institutional futures of a democratic society.
Unger criticizes the dominant, rationalizing style of Legal doctrine, with its obsessional focus upon adjudication and its urge to suppress or contain conflict or contradiction in law.
The search for basic social alternatives, largely abandoned by philosophy and politics, can find in such a practice a new point of departure.
He shows how a changed practice of Legal Analysis can help us re-imagine and reshape the dominant institutions of representative democracy, market economy and free civil society.
He argues for the reconstruction of Legal Analysis as a discipline of institutional imagination.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in Legal and social theory
