Synopses & Reviews
A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: Where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the world today — about national alternatives and alternative globalizations — Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger's book may someday make possible a new national romance ... a hitherto undreamt-of national future. --Richard Rorty
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"A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First." Perry Anderson
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Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill ... a political philosopher extraordinaire.This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them. -- Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass
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"A restless visionary." New York Times
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"A good book to stir up leftists." Tyler Cowen
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"This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them." Bloomberg Business Week
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Confronting the major debates in the world today '"about national alternatives and alternative globalizations'"Unger shows that there are a set of changes that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, Unger"s argument is not a blueprint but a rallying call for alternative forms of change.
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A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here?
Synopsis
A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: Where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the world today -- about national alternatives and alternative globalizations -- Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.
Synopsis
A manifesto that tackles head-on the question of how the Left should respond to globalization and neoliberalism. Since the major ideological proposals of the past two hundred years fail to address today"s problems, where do we go from here? Unger shows that there is a set of national and global alternatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand: opportunities available to us only if we learn to recognize them.
About the Author
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.