Knowledge and Politics by Roberto Mangabeira Unger (book review)
citation_date
1972
Description
Unger's Knowledge and Politics is a rare philosophical endeavor: it is an expression of hope articulated as a theory of human nature and politics. The hope expressed in Unger's work is that the empiricism of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and the corollary thesis of the subjectivity of values and the loss of a theory of the good, is not an accurate description of knowledge and man. Unger criticizes the empiricist's theory of knowledge and the liberal fiction of the isolated and self-sufficient individual, and in their stead reasserts the theory of ontologi-cal values and the social nature of man.
Type
text;
citation_publisher
Utah Law Review
citation_volume
66
citation_issue
3
citation_firstpage
1088
Citation_lastpage
1090
citation_keywords
Book review; Philosophy
Subject (LCSH)
Knowledge, Theory of; Criticism
citation_dissertation_institution
University of Utah
citation_language
eng
Bibliographic Citation
Firmage, E. B. (1972). The International Regulation of Frontier Disputes. Evan Luard. (Book Review). The American Political Science Review, 66(3) 1088-90.
