Politics, Vol. 3: Social Theory- Its Situation and Its Task- A Critical Introduction to Politics- A Work in Constructive Social Theory (Cambridge Paperback Library)
Description
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger’s ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity.Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen o...
ISBN(s)
052133862X, 9780521338622
