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.
Unger insists on the need to refocus on what really matters, the human spirit. -- John Paul Rathbone * Financial Times * A restless visionary. -- William Connolly * New York Times * One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past. * Times Higher Education * Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill. A political philosopher extraordinaire. * Chronicle of Higher Education *