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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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28 Feb 2006 03:05:29 PM |
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OT: Roberto Unger |
The ideas interview: Roberto Unger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1719487,00.html
He wants to be president of Brazil, and he believes in the human right
to live anywhere. By John Sutherland
Tuesday February 28, 2006
The Guardian
Talking to Roberto Mangabeira Unger for an hour is like waltzing with a
very articulate cement mixer. Being slippery in his intellectual
formulations is a matter of perverse pride to him. When the London
Review of Books rejected an article of his on the grounds that it was
somewhat lacking in "conversational" tone, Unger retorted that he was
never conversational; even in conversation.
That elusiveness means it is not always easy to grasp his thinking. He
prescribes a moral and spiritual revival in socialism, something that
will enable it, as a force, to escape its current "dictatorship of no
alternatives". Unger is labelled a "preposterous romantic" by his
critics. The term is turned around by admirers such as the philosopher
Michael Rorty, who writes that Unger "may someday make possible a new
national romance".
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