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Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers, political thinkers, and legal theorists in the world today. Verso publishes his social theory books. False Necessity, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task, and Plasticity into Power, his programmatic writings, Democracy Realized and toon meer The Left Alternative; and his other major work in legal theory, What Should Legal Analysis Become? toon minder
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Werken van Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Knowledge and Politics (1975) 55 exemplaren
The Religion of the Future (2014) 54 exemplaren
Law in Modern Society (1976) 48 exemplaren
Passion: An Essay on Personality (1984) 43 exemplaren
The Knowledge Economy (2018) 41 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1947
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Brazil
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Brazil

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laplantelibrary | Dec 11, 2021 |
adherents of the religion of the future will :

exhibit democratic-socialist tendencies, refuse repetitive work (that's for machines), be creative (god's work), open themselves to love, embrace death in order to live (you only die once)

im probably damned, anyway
 
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stravinsky | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 28, 2020 |
A meaty, reinforcing follow-up to physicist Smolin's _Time Reborn_, which took issue with such ideas as the contention that time is illusory, the multiverse conception, the immutability of physical laws, and the alleged apotheosis of mathematics. Philosopher Unger's portion (~70%) of this new book is dry, syntactically ponderous, and repetitious. Smolin's portion (~30%) is easier to read (although it does include some very new and unfamiliar ideas) but marred by the relentless use of "which" in place of "that" and an inexcusable, wholesale misnumbering of the many literature references. Substance-wise, well worth reading even though there are many things one could disagree with.… (meer)
 
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fpagan | Nov 21, 2015 |
This is how our Government Operates! More of an extensive newspaper article rather than a book covering J. Edgar Hoover's rise to power.
Nothing was beneath the "Director" and his henchmen to convict however they thought was guilty.
Definitely worth reading.
½
 
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912
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½ 3.4
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11
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86
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