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Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory is a 1987 book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the book, Unger sets out a theory of society as artifact, attempting to complete what he describes as an unfinished revolution, begun by classic social theories such as Marxism, against the naturalistic premise in the understanding of human life and society. Politics was published in three volumes: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, the longest volume, is an explanatory and programmatic argument of how society might be transformed to be more in keeping with the context-smashing potential of the human imagination; Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task, is a "critical introduction" that delves into issues of social science underpinning Unger's project; and Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success, is a collection of three historical essays illuminating the theoretical points Unger advanced in the first two volumes. In 1997, an abridged, one-volume edition of Politics was issued as Politics, The Central Texts, edited by Zhiyuan Cui.

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  1. Unger 1987a, p. 1.
  2. Unger 1987a, pp. 44-82.
  3. Unger 1987a, pp. 46-49.
  4. Unger 1987a, pp. 51-79.
  5. Unger 1987a, pp. 128-134.
  6. Unger 1987a, pp. 135-144.
  7. Unger 1987a, pp. 144-163.
  8. Unger 1987a, pp. 164-171.
  9. Unger 1987a, pp. 172-246.
  10. Unger 1987a, pp. 246-340.
  11. Unger 1987a, p. 11: "The modernist criticism of personal relations and the leftist criticism of collective institutions have remained only fitfully and obscurely connected. This parting of the ways in the cultures of leftism and modernism has been amplified in political experience. The attack on stereotyped roles in personal relations has often proved strongest where the politics of institutional reinvention are weakest. The separation between these two cultures and these two transformative movements—the most powerful of all found in the modern world—has been destructive to both. It has helped deprive leftist practice of its ability to reach direct social relations and to change their fine texture. It has also threatened to degrade the politics of personal relations into a desperate search for gratification."
  12. Unger 1987a, pp. 368-377.
  13. Unger 1987a, pp. 395-432.
  14. Unger 1987a, pp. 441-476.
  15. Unger 1987a, pp. 491-539.
  16. Unger 1987a, pp. 556-570.
  17. Unger 1987a, p. 584.
  18. Unger 1987b, p. 1.
  19. Unger 1987b, pp. 2-3.
  20. Unger 1987b, p. 5.
  21. Unger 1987b, p. 6.
  22. Unger 1987b, p. 9.
  23. Unger 1987b, p. 22: "All our major problems in the understanding of society arise from the same source. They have to do with the difficulty of accounting for the actions of a being who, individually and collectively, in thought and relationship, might break through the contexts within which he ordinarily moves."
  24. Unger 1987b, pp. 23-23.
  25. Unger 1987b, p. 13.
  26. Unger 1987b, pp. 9-10.
  27. Unger 1987b, pp. 80-169.
  28. Unger 1987b, p. 172.
  29. Unger 1987b, pp. 172-185.
  30. Unger 1987b, pp. 185-199.
  31. Unger 1987c, p. 1.
  32. Unger 1987c, pp. 3-8.
  33. Unger 1987c, pp. 25-42.
  34. Unger 1987c, pp. 42-50.
  35. Unger 1987c, pp. 50-61.
  36. Unger 1987c, pp. 61-67.
  37. Unger 1987c, pp. 94-96.
  38. Unger 1987c, p. 113.
  39. Unger 1987c, pp. 113-114.
  40. Unger 1987c, pp. 120-124, 139-141.
  41. Unger 1987c, p. 141.
  42. Unger 1987c, pp. 143-147.
  43. Unger 1987c, p. 147.
  44. Unger 1987c, p. 148.
  45. Unger 1987c, p. 153.
  46. Unger 1987c, pp. 162-170.
  47. Unger 1987c, pp. 170-186.
  48. Unger 1987c, pp. 192-206.
  49. Unger 1987c, p. 206.
  50. Unger 1987c, pp. 206-207.
  51. Unger 1987c, p. 212.
  52. Perry 1987.
  53. Lovin & Perry 1990.
  54. Rorty 1988, p. 35.
  55. Rorty 1988, p. 40.
  56. Turley 1987, p. 593.
  57. Ball 1987, p. 625.
  58. Galston 1987, p. 765.
  59. Sunstein 1987, p. 882.
  60. Connolly 1988, p. 26.
  61. Anderson 1992, p. 143.
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