Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and political thinkers in the world today. Verso has published much of his writing. The Knowledge Economy applies to the analysis of our economic present and future a way of thinking prefigured in his earlier book, Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics, as well as in his central work in social theory, False Necessity.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and political thinkers in the world today. He is also active in Brazilian public life and has served twice as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs, charged with developing initiatives that signal a direction for the country. Verso has published much of his work: in philosophy (
The Religion of the Future), in social theory (
False Necessity, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task, and
Plasticity into Power), in political economy (
The Knowledge Economy), and in legal theory (
What Should Legal Analysis Become?).