Politics the central texts : theory against fate /
Roberto Mangabeira Unger ; edited and introduced by Zhiyuan Cui.
- London ; New York : Verso, 1997.
- xvi, 464 p. ; 25 cm.
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