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Politics the central texts : theory against fate / Roberto Mangabeira Unger ; edited and introduced by Zhiyuan Cui.

By: Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 1997.Description: xvi, 464 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1859848702 (hbk.)
  • 1859841317 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 UNG 21
LOC classification:
  • HM24 .U5356 1997
Contents:
Contents Introduction v; A Radically Antinaturalist Social Theory; 1 Introduction: Society as Artifact 3; 2 The Conditional and the Unconditional 19; 3 The Circumstance of Social Theory 26; 4 Making Sense of the Slogan "It's All Politics" 72; The Making of Contemporary Formative Contexts; 5 The Genesis of Three Complexes: Work-Organization, Government, and Private Rights 93; 6 The Genesis of Another Formative Context: The Communist Alternative 135; 7 Stability and Destabilization in the Working of Formative Contexts 150; 8 Negative Capability and Plasticity into Power 172; The Institutional Program of Empowered Democracy; 9 A Proto-Theory 227; 10 The Practice: In Quest of Power and In Power 263; 11 Constitutional Reorganization 306; 12 Economic Reorganization 340; 13 The System of Rights: Four Rights 367; The Cultural Program of Empowered Democracy; 14 The Cultural-Revolutionary Counterpart to the Institutional Program 399; 15 The Idea of the Transformative Vocation 413; 16 The Spirit 423; Thematic Index 437; Proper-Name Index 461
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Includes indexes.

Contents
Introduction v;
A Radically Antinaturalist Social Theory;
1 Introduction: Society as Artifact 3;
2 The Conditional and the Unconditional 19;
3 The Circumstance of Social Theory 26;
4 Making Sense of the Slogan "It's All Politics" 72;
The Making of Contemporary Formative Contexts;
5 The Genesis of Three Complexes: Work-Organization, Government, and Private Rights 93;
6 The Genesis of Another Formative Context: The Communist Alternative 135;
7 Stability and Destabilization in the Working of Formative Contexts 150;
8 Negative Capability and Plasticity into Power 172;
The Institutional Program of Empowered Democracy;
9 A Proto-Theory 227;
10 The Practice: In Quest of Power and In Power 263;
11 Constitutional Reorganization 306;
12 Economic Reorganization 340;
13 The System of Rights: Four Rights 367;
The Cultural Program of Empowered Democracy;
14 The Cultural-Revolutionary Counterpart to the Institutional Program 399;
15 The Idea of the Transformative Vocation 413;
16 The Spirit 423;
Thematic Index 437;
Proper-Name Index 461