Situation and Its Task - A Critical Introduction to Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory. Vol 3 - Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success. What Should Legal Analysis Become?, Verso, 1996 Politics: The Central Texts, Theory Against Fate, Verso, 1997, with Cui Zhiyuan. Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative, Verso, 1998. The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform, Beacon, 1998 - with Cornel West What Should the Left Propose?, Verso, 2006. The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound, Harvard, 2007. Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics, Princeton University Press, 2007. The Left Alternative, Verso, 2009 (2nd edition to What Should the Left Propose?, Verso, 2006.). The Religion of the Future, Harvard, 2014. The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, Cambridge University Press, 2014, with Lee Smolin. The Knowledge Economy, Verso, 2019. See also False necessity Formative context Negative capability Empowered democracy Structure and agency Passions References External links Roberto Unger's Harvard Homepage Links to Unger's works via his homepage An interview with Unger on the American Left Biographical articles about Roberto Unger Guggenheim Gives Fellowships for '76: Unger Gets Tenure, Too (The Harvard Crimson April 5, 1976) "The Passion of Roberto Unger" , Eyal Press, (Lingua Franca, March 1999) Carlos Castilho, "Brazil's Consigliere: Unger Leaves Lectern to Stand Behind the Throne." (World Paper, April 2000) Simon Romero, "Destination: São Paulo" (Metropolis, October 2000) This article is about São Paulo, Brazil, but it has a lengthy discussion of Unger's political activism there and many quotes from Unger. Meltzer Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (HLS News May 13, 2004) (First of the Month, July 1, 2012) 1947 births 20th-century Brazilian male writers 20th-century Brazilian philosophers 20th-century Brazilian economists 20th-century essayists 21st-century Brazilian male writers 21st-century Brazilian economists 21st-century essayists 21st-century philosophers Analytic philosophers Brazilian anti-poverty advocates Brazilian essayists Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian social scientists Epistemologists Ethicists Futurologists Government ministers of Brazil Harvard Law School alumni Harvard Law School faculty Living people Metaphilosophers Metaphysicians Ontologists People from Rio de Janeiro (city) Philosophers of culture Philosophers of economics Philosophers of education Philosophers of history Philosophers of law Philosophers of mathematics Philosophers of religion Philosophers of science Philosophers of social science Philosophers of technology Philosophers of time Philosophy writers Political philosophers Politicians from Cambridge,