Knowledge and Politics.

From Simon & Schuster, Knowledge and Politics by Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a philosophical classic. Knowledge and Politics is a 1975 book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In it, Unger criticizes classical liberal doctrine, which originated with European social theorists in the mid-17th century and continues to exercise a tight grip over contemporary thought, as an untenable system of ideas. Contents......Page 8 Partial and total criticism......Page 11 Knowledge and politics......Page 13 The critical argument......Page 15 The problem of recognition......Page 17 The problem of language......Page 22 The problem of history......Page 26 The theory of the welfare-corporate state......Page 28 The theory of the self......Page 31 The theory of organic groups......Page 33 Theory and the moral sentiments......Page 34 Introduction......Page 39 The antinomy of theory and fact......Page 41 The unreflective view of mind......Page 46 The principle of reason and desire......Page 48 The principle of arbitrary desire......Page 52 The principle of analysis......Page 56 The moralities of reason and desire......Page 59 The antinomy of reason and desire......Page 61 The idea of personality......Page 65 Roles and personality......Page 69 Introduction......Page 73 The unreflective view of society......Page 74 Value and rule......Page 77 Positivism and natural right......Page 79 The legal mentality......Page 82 The principle of subjective value......Page 86 The principle of individualism......Page 91 Order, freedom, and law: the problem of legislation......Page 93 The antinomy of rules and values: the problem of adjudication......Page 98 The sharing of values......Page 110 Introduction......Page 114 The unity of liberal thought and the problem of method......Page 116 Arbitrary desire and subjective value......Page 129 Analysis and individualism......Page 131 Parts and wholes......Page 135 The universal and the particular......Page 143 The unity of universals and particulars......Page 147 The interplay of universals and particulars......Page 152 Introduction......Page 155 Social consciousness and social order......Page 157 The liberal state......Page 161 Instrumentalism......Page 162 Individualism......Page 165 Social place......Page 166 The ideal of transcendence......Page 167 Principles of social order......Page 174 Class and role......Page 176 Impersonal rules and personal dependence......Page 177 The bureaucracy......Page 180 The welfare-corporate state......Page 184 Social consciousness in the welfare-corporate state......Page 186 The rejection of the dominant consciousness......Page 187 The ideal of immanence......Page 189 The union of immanence and transcendence......Page 190 The conflicts of bureaucratic organization......Page 191 The resolution of the conflicts......Page 193 Signs of change......Page 195 Significance of the emergent social order......Page 197 The socialist state......Page 199 Toward a conclusion......Page 200 Introduction......Page 201 The idea of the self......Page 202 Decisive issues......Page 203 Method of exposition and proof......Page 206 Self and nature......Page 209 Self and others......Page 223 The abstract and the concrete self......Page 232 The self and the world......Page 236 The everyday and the extraordinary......Page 241 Introduction......Page 246 The good......Page 248 Domination and community......Page 259 Theory and prudence......Page 263 General conception......Page 269 The community of life......Page 272 The democracy of ends......Page 277 The division of labor......Page 284 Freedom......Page 287 The state......Page 291 The dilemmas of communitarian politics......Page 294 God......Page 300 Notes......Page 306 Index......Page 335 Postscript......Page 347 This book uses social psychology to discuss politics, specifically liberalism