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Knowledge and Politics
(Free Press, 1975). Available here:
first chapter [1.5 MB],
postscript [255 KB].
Passion: An Essay on Personality (Free Press, 1984).
Available here: excerpt [0.75
MB] including table of contents, preface, and section on "the quintessential dream of moral
success" and "a countertale of failure."
The Critical Legal Studies Movement (Harvard Law Review,
1983; Harvard University Press, 1986). Available here:
full text [0.35 MB]
from Harvard Law Review.
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its
Task (A Critical Introduction to Politics: A Work in Constructive
Social Theory) (Cambridge University Press, 1987). Available
here: excerpt [1 MB]
on "the idea of the transformative vocation."
False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian
Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (Cambridge
University Press, 1987). Available here:
excerpt [1.1 MB] in
which Unger describes his "personalist program," including discussions of
"role jumbling," "role defiance," and "the confusion of expressive means."
Democracy Realized: The Progressive
Alternative (Verso, 1998). Available here:
first chapter [1.7 MB], excerpt
[0.5 MB] on the "emancipatory school."
Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West, The Future of American
Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform
(Beacon, 1998). Available here:
excerpt [0.5 MB]
including table of contents and
first two chapters.
