“[T]he project of the modernist visionary: the search for individual and collective empowerment through the dissolution of the prewritten social script.”

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Source: False Necessityː Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (1987), p. 22

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Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947

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