Roberto Unger on the False Dilemma’s Regarding Structural Political Change

Solutions today seem either utopian or trivial, so what can we do ?

Recommended by Pat Conaty:

“Presentation by Roberto Unger, Harvard professor and former advisor to the Brazilian President Lula.

His delivery style is stern to say the least and totally humourless. However he does see the new paradigm in a way similar to the pathways we are working on viz public-social partnerships or civil society led social-public partnerships. He says almost nothing about ecology which is a real blind-spot I sense, yet in other ways he appears to be a real fellow traveller.

HIs analysis is specific about the programme of evolutionary reconstruction practice that he emphasises. The emphasis he gives to a new pedagogy for education that is analytical and based on critical theory is great to see. Probably he is drawing on the Frankfurt school heavily.”

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