The Work of Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Lectures and Courses (Audio and Video)

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Academic Courses

Crisis and Globalization

The Reconstruction of the Global Order
- Delivered at Harvard University 6/2/2010
The Worldwide Financial And Economic Crisis
- Delivered at Brown University 6/9/2010

Cosmology

Laws and Time in Cosmology
-Delivered at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 5/20/2010

South American Alternatives

Argentina y su Alternativa Nacional
- Delivered at Harvard University 4/15/2010:
America Futura: Un Otro Rumbo
- Delivered in Salta, Argentina 5/15/2010

YouTube (The Complete Online Course Selection)

Nihilism
A series of eight videos about major orientations in the history of philosophy from the standpoint of their bearing on the confrontation with nihilism.

Part 1: Religion, Philosophy, and Nihilism
Part 2: Flaws in the Human Condition
Part 3: Directions in the Spiritual History of Mankind
Part 4: The Overcoming of the World
Part 5: The Humanization of the World
Part 6: The Struggle with the World
Part 7: The Religion of the Future

The Economic Crisis and the Failing Recovery
Two videos criticizing the stimulus obsessed response to the economic crisis of 2007-2009 and to subsequent failing recovery. Proposes a different way to think about them and to them.

Part 1
Part 2

The Trouble with Economics
Two videos on what is wrong with economics and how to fix it.

Part 1
Part 2

Misusing Keynes
A series of three videos criticizing Keynes and Keynesianism from a progressive standpoint and suggesting another direction.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

The Revolutionary Project of Social Theory
The task of social theory in light of the past of social theory and of the present of social science.

What Progressives Should Propose
Outline of a programmatic vision, committed to institutional reconstruction, to be embraced by progressives and leftists, in contrast to the present institutionally conservative or empty forms of progressivism and leftism.

The New Old Faith and the Old New Paganism
Contrasts ideas lying at the heart of the revolutionary orthodoxy of the West, in both its Christian and its secular humanist form, to the paganism embraced in many currents of contemporary thought, among which the philosophy of late Heidegger.

Against the Hegelian and the Sartrean Heresies
The view of self and structure lying at the center of the revolutionary orthodoxy of the West, contrasted to misdirections labeled as Hegelian and Sartrean heresies.


Harvard University
Harvard Law School
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