Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory.He argues for the reconstruction of legal analysis as a discipline of   institutional imagination. He shows how a changed practice of legal   analysis can help us re-imagine and reshape the dominant institutions of   representative democracy, market economy and free civil society. The   search for basic social alternatives, largely abandoned by philosophy   and politics, can find in such a practice a new point of departure.   Unger criticizes the dominant, rationalizing style of legal doctrine,   with its obsessional focus upon adjudication and its urge to suppress or   contain conflict or contradiction in law. He shows how we can turn   legal analysis into a way of talking about the alternative institutional   futures of a democratic society. The programmatic proposals of Unger's   Politics are here placed within a wider field of possibilities. A major   concern of the book is to explore how professional specialties such as   legal thought can inform the public debate in a democracy. The book   exemplifies this connection: Unger's arguments are accessible to those   with no specialized knowledge of law or legal theory.

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