Interviews and Discussions
Interviews of Roberto Mangabeira Unger
"Remaking the Democratic Party"
Interview with The Financial Times
"Bossa Nova: Harvard Law's Roberto Unger Takes on the Future of Brazil"
"Un progresista es uns conspirador contra el destino" [Spanish] (Prodavinci Venezuela)
"La rebeldía sin proyecto fracas" [Spanish] (Prodavinci Venezuela)
A Program for Late Twentieth-Century Psychiatry
Presented as the William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture at the 133rd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May 3-9, 1980. Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 139:2, February 1982, pp. 155-164.
Architecture
These occasional pieces represent yet another attempt to reconsider general ideas about society and personality from the vantage point of a particular practical domain. The little lecture "The Better Futures of Architectures" was part of a debate with Jacques Derrida. The subsequent letter grew out of conversations, prompted by the lecture, with Rem Koolhaass and Frank Gehry.
- The Better Futures of Architecture (7 pages)
- The Present of Architecture and the Future of Democracy (9 pages, 1995)
Discussions of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Work in Social Theory
Here are some contrasting approaches to my writings in social theory. They may help the reader engage the work.
Politics The Central Texts: Introduction by Zhiyuan Cui
Unger, Castoriadis, and the Romance of a National Future: by Richard Rorty
A Zone of Engagement: Roberto Unger and the Politics of Empowerment: by Perry Anderson
Letter about Perry Anderson's essay
Unger and Milton: by Stanley Fish
Routine and Revolution: by Cass Sunstein
Unger's Politics and the Appraisal of Political Possibility: by John Dunn
Radical Politics in a New Key?: by Tony Judt
Radical Constructivism in Social Theory: by Robert Burns
Commonsense Reasoning, Social Change, and the Law: by David VanZandt
Psychiartry as Scientific Humanism: by J. Allan Hobson
Programmatic Thought and the Critique of the Social Disciplines: by David Trubek
Religion and the Making of Society: by Charles Davis
Unger's Emancipatory Experimentalism: by Cornel West
Unger's Brazilian Journalism: by William H. Simon
The Politics of Economy: by Samuel Moyn
Roberto Unger and the politics of transformation in an Asian context: by Andrew Phang