World and Us

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvRoberto Mangabeira Unger

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In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is the relation between transcendence and finitude in human experience: how everything in our existence points beyond itself, and yet our mortal lives and the world around us remain enigmas. He asks how we can make sense of ourselves without claiming for human beings a miraculous exception to the general regime of nature.For Unger, philosophy must be the mind on fire, challenging the orthodoxies of specialized fields of inquiry without pretending to be a super-science that solves the riddle of reality. He redefines each of the traditional parts of philosophy, from ontology and epistemology to ethics and politics. The World and Us transforms political philosophy into a program of deep freedom, showing how to democratize the market economy, energize democratic politics, and give the individual worker and citizen the means to flourish amid permanent innovation. Unger is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers in the world today. This is the capstone of his lifework.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-09
Mått153 x 234 x 43 mm
Vikt750 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor640
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804293621

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Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers in the world today. He is 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 his country. A polymath, he has written widely in legal, political, economic, and moral theory as well as in natural philosophy. Among his major writings are Passion: An Essay on Personality, a modernist view of human nature; False Necessity, a radical alternative to Marxist social theory; and, most recently, The Knowledge Economy, a study of the unrealized potential of the new vanguard of production. The World and Us is the capstone of his lifework.

Through a 49-year career spanning politics, law, social and political theory and philosophy, Unger has put forward a collection of searching inquiries meant to pierce the liberal mythos of necessary progress. Across dozens of books, including the recently published metaphysical tome The World and Us, the Brazilian philosopher has tried to think beyond 20th-century categories through a series of questions.