What Should the Left Propose? - Rilegato

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

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ISBN 10: 1844670481 ISBN 13: 9781844670482

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2006

Riassunto

What Shouldthe Left Propose? is a manifesto that engages a vital issue of ourtime: the program for which Leftists should stand, now that the ideological proposals of the past twohundred years are exhausted.

Confronting the major debates in the worldtoday - about national alternatives and alternative globalizations - Ungershows that there is a set of national and global alternatives that wecan begin to develop with the materials at hand: opportunitiesavailable to us only if we learn to recognize them. These alternativeswould, over time, vastly enhance our practical capabilities. They wouldalso give greater reality to the central teaching of democracy: faithin the constructive genius of ordinary men and women.

For Unger, a programmatic argument is not a blueprint; it marks a direction and explores next steps. He explores the form this direction could take in the European social democracies, in the United States, in the developing countries, and in the contest over the reform of globalization. He shows how the Left in power can do more than use compensatory redistribution to sugarcoat economic inequality, and how it can make good on its ideals without reaffirming a discredited commitment to governmental control of the economy.

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“Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a restless visionary.”—New York Times

“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

L'autore

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. He is also active in Brazilian politics. 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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844670481
• ISBN 13: 9781844670482
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 179