04/22/2006: Added
two new articles/interviews with Unger, one
by John Sutherland in the Guardian and the other
by Huw Richards in the Times Educational Supplement.
04/26/2002: Amazon.com has begun allowing readers
to contribute short essays on topics that will be of interest
to others, called "So you'd like to ...."
guides. One of us has contributed one
of these guides to Unger's books, called "So
you'd like to learn about Roberto Unger's social theory."
We have also added a fascinating interview
with Unger, from the Indian magazine Frontline.
01/30/2002: Just added to this site: The
full text of the Northwestern University Law Review Symposium
on Roberto Unger's Politics: A Work in Constructive
Social Theory. The symposium includes
15 articles by eminent scholars.
01/25/2002: We have posted a page with information
about
the Roberto Unger Websource, for anyone who is interested
in why and how we created and promoted it.
01/22/2002: We have posted the text of Stephen
Holmes's "The
Professor of Smashing: The Preposterous Political Romanticism
of Roberto Unger," a lively essay trashing Unger's
work, in a format matching the rest of the Roberto Unger
Websource. This is much easier on the eyes than
the poor-quality PDF scan we posted earlier. We
also have added Unger's
letter to Vincente Fox, and a review
from the journal Utopian Studies.
01/14/2002: On Monday, January 21st and Tuesday,
January 22nd, Roberto Unger will deliver the 2002 Boutwood
Lectures at Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University,
as part of the 650th anniversary of the college.
The topic of the lectures is “The Second
Way: Why we need an alternative to the present consensus
and what the alternative is.” On Wednesday,
January 23rd, a panel discussion of Roberto Unger's work
will be held. The panel will consist of Cambridge
faculty members John Dunn, Raymond Geuss,
Geoffrey Hawthorn and Quentin Skinner, and it will be chaired by Michael Tanner.
Here is the
announcement of Unger's lectures. A note of
historical interest: Corpus Christi College was the first
of the Cambridge colleges to be founded by Cambridge townspeople,
not by the aristocracy or clergy.
12/03/2001:
We were surprised and delighted to discover that tremendous
improvements were made last week to Roberto Unger's official Harvard website.
Although our site remains the best source for secondary
and biographical material on Unger, Unger's new site has
far more primary sources than ours. Go there to get the
full texts of two of the three volumes of Politics:
Social
Theory and Plasticity
Into Power, as well as substantial excerpts from several
of his other books. Even more exciting is the availability,
on the new site, of both the new
Introduction to the forthcoming reissue of False
Necessity, as well as the
new Appendix to the same book. (Both the new
Introduction and the new Appendix are in MS Word format.)
Unger's generosity in making these texts freely and fully
available on the web complements our mission, at the Roberto
Unger Websource, of bringing Unger's work to the attention
of a broader reading public.
11/27/2001:
Here is Stephen Holmes's essay, "The Professor
of Smashing: The Preposterous Political Romanticism of
Roberto Unger," from The New Republic.
The quality of this scan is abysmal, owing to the fact
that the article was retrieved from an old microfilm.
11/8/2001: We
have posted a chapter on Unger from Perry Anderson's book
A Zone of Engagement. The chapter is called
"Roberto Unger
and the Politics of Empowerment." (Adobe PDF format)
11/8/2001: We
admire Unger's work, but we also enjoy good polemic, which
is why we enjoyed reading Stephen Holmes's polemical attacks
on Unger's ideas. We are making available the chapter
(called "Antiliberalism Unbound") on Unger from Holmes's
book The Anatomy
of Antiliberalism. Holmes also wrote an
article about Unger for the New Republic, "The
Professor of Smashing," that we will put online within
the week. (Adobe PDF format)
11/6/2001: A
Brazilian visitor to this site reports that the Postscript
to Unger's Knowledge and Politics is difficult
to find in Brazil, so we have posted it.
(Adobe PDF format)
10/11/2001:
We have finally acquired the text of "A
Latin American Alternative," the seminal document
drafted by the Latin American policy group led by Unger and Jorge G. Castañeda in 1996 and 1997. Unger's voice is unmistakable
in this text; it presages much of what he would say in
Democracy Realized.
10/10/2001:
We have added a press release summarizing
Unger's address to the Confederation of Indian Industry
in August 2001. Unger's remarks closely follow his
arguments in Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative.
10/1/2001: Cícero Freitas has generously contributed
a translation of the introduction
to Roberto Unger's The Second Way: The Present and
Future of Brazil, a work that until now has not been
available in English translation.
9/16/2001: We have created
an e-mail forum for the the discussion of Roberto Unger's
work and related things. If you would like to be
on this mailing list, see our Unger Forum information page.
8/26/2001: Unger's False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian
Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy,
will be reissued by Verso Books in early 2002. This
paperback reissue features a new introduction by Unger.
For more details see Verso's
announcement.
