March 2013
5 posts
The Religion of the Future, the complete draft of a forthcoming book, has been added to Philosophy and Religion.
The Self Awakened, the complete text of a philosophical work published in 2007, has been added to Philosophy and Religion.
Politics: The Central Texts (edited by Zhiyuan Cui, 1997), a selection of my social-theory writings, has been added to Social and Political Theory.
Remaking the Democratic Party has been added to Interviews and Discussions.
No One Should Have to Do Work that Can Be Done by a Machine, has been added to Lectures and Courses.
November 2012
17 posts
Brazil and the United States: Their National Futures (a talk at Harvard) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Visions For The Future (trailer to a documentary) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
The Next Revolution in Legal Education (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Beyond Stimulus (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Beyond False Necessity (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Beyond The Small Life: A Letter to Young People (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
The Future of the Left (Interview) has been added to Progressive Alternatives.
The Revolutionary Project of Social Theory (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
What Progressives Should Propose (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
The New Old Faith and the Old New Paganism (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Against the Hegelian and the Sartrean Heresies (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Misusing Keynes (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
The Economic Crisis and the Failing Recovery (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
The Trouble with Economics (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Nihilism (Online Lecture Series) has been added to Lectures and Courses.
Tanner Lectures: The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future has been added to Philosophy.
Crisis, Slump, Superstition and Recovery: Thinking and Acting Beyond Vulgar Keynesianism has been added to Economics.
Crisis, Slump, Superstition and Recovery: Thinking and Acting Beyond Vulgar Keynesianism has been added to Economics.
Tanner Lectures: The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future has been added to Philosophy.
Crisis, Slump, Superstition and Recovery: Thinking and Acting Beyond Vulgar Keynesianism has been added to Economics.
November 2011
1 post
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"We Drown Our Sorrows In Consumption"
The European: Do you still see the nation state as the locus of these institutional experiments? Unger: Despite the idea that the nation state is passe, it remains the main focus of innovation and power in the world. The problem with European society is they have not created institutions that internalize the impulse to change. With the way things are organized, transformation continues to depend...
October 2011
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The Trouble with Economics
Economics, the most influential social science, suffers from flaws that limit its insight and compromise its authority. The narrowness and shallowness of its contributions to the debate about the recent economic crisis and the subsequent weak recovery have made these flaws manifest.
Watch the full video of this lecture here
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The Relationship Between the United States and...
Post four in my series on the relationship between the United States and Left.
How can a community survive the full creative expression of its individual members?
This faith in self-construction goes together in the contemporary religion of humanity with a faith in human solidarity. At its extreme limit, it is the visionary conviction, belied but not destroyed by the terrors of ordinary social...
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Misusing Keynes
What did Keynes really teach? The influence of vulgar Keynesianism on academic orthodoxy as well as on practical discourse has been so great that it threatens to obscure the distinctive core of Keynes's developed economic theory. Fortunately, the theory is unencumbered by the toy mathematics that has served so much subsequent economic theorizing as a surrogate for causal explanation. I...
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The Relationship Between the United States and...
Post three in my series on the relationship between the United States and Left.
How do you design a social structure that accommodates the need for a “permanent rebellion” against its own present form?
No institutional and imaginative ordering of social life accommodates all our strivings. The next best thing to such an all-inclusive order is the recombination of experimental pluralism —...
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Religion of Humanity
The “religion of humanity” that makes up the historical aspiration of the Left begins with the premise that we possess an infinite capacity within us to transcend the forms of the world we inhabit:
The religion of humanity presents the self as transcendent over context: incapable of being contained within any limited mental or social structure. Not satisfied occasionally to rebel, it...
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The United States and the Left
In this 9th chapter of my book The Left Alternative, I argue that “no country identifies more completely” with that “religion of humanity” “at the center of the historical aspirations of the Left,” than the United States. What is this “religion of humanity” and how is it engendered in United States, a nation that is said to have no living Left at all? Over the next few posts I...
August 2011
6 posts
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Starting today I’ll start releasing some of my videos on philosophy, economics, and politics.
If you’re on Tumblr I hope you’ll subscribe, comment, and share. We are also creating a podcast so that you can follow in iTunes and elsewhere.
Enjoy!
