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Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory is a 1976 book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the book, Unger uses the rise and decline of the rule of law as a vehicle to explore certain problems in social theory. According to Unger, problems that were central concerns of classical social theorists like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber—the problems of explanation, order, and modernity—remain unsolved. Unger contends that the failure of classical social theory to solve these dilemmas can be traced to the way in which it asserted its independence from the ancient political philosophers, namely in its denial of a supra-historical human nature and in its insistence upon the contrast of fact and value. Unger argues that a radical reorientation of social theory is needed to solve the problems it faces. "To carry out its own program," Unger writes, social theory must destroy itself." The rise and decline of the rule of law, and the dilemmas of social theory, converge in the need to be able to compare and criticize different forms of society, in order to be able to more effectively submit the organization of society to the human will.
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- Unger 1976, pp. 1-3.
- Unger 1976, pp. 3-5.
- Unger 1976, pp. 8-23.
- Unger 1976, pp. 23-37.
- Unger 1976, pp. 37-40.
- Unger 1976, pp. 41-42.
- Unger 1976, pp. 266-267.
- Unger 1976, p. 43.
- Unger 1976, pp. 40-43.
- Unger 1976, pp. 49-50.
- Unger 1976, pp. 50-52.
- Unger 1976, pp. 52-54.
- Unger 1976, p. 63.
- Unger 1976, pp. 61-62.
- Unger 1976, pp. 66-76.
- Unger 1976, pp. 76-86.
- Unger 1976, pp. 127-133.
- Unger 1976, pp. 84-86.
- Unger 1976, pp. 137-140.
- Unger 1976, pp. 140-143.
- Unger 1976, pp. 143-147.
- Unger 1976, pp. 147-153.
- Unger 1976, p. 134.
- Unger 1976, p. 192.
- Unger 1976, pp. 155-156.
- Unger 1976, pp. 158-160.
- Unger 1976, p. 160.
- Unger 1976, pp. 162-163.
- Unger 1976, p. 166.
- Unger 1976, pp. 169-170.
- Unger 1976, pp. 172-173.
- Unger 1976, pp. 176-178.
- Unger 1976, pp. 178-179.
- Unger 1976, pp. 179-181.
- Unger 1976, p. 181.
- Unger 1976, pp. 192-193.
- Unger 1976, pp. 192-200.
- Unger 1976, pp. 200-203.
- Unger 1976, p. 200.
- Unger 1976, pp. 216-220.
- Unger 1976, pp. 224-231.
- Unger 1976, pp. 231-234.
- Unger 1976, pp. 234-235.
- Unger 1976, p. 237.
- Unger 1976, pp. 238-239.
- Unger 1976, p. 239.
- Unger 1976, pp. 239-240.
- Unger 1976, p. 240.
- Unger 1976, pp. 243-245.
- Unger 1976, pp. 245-262.
- Unger 1976, pp. 262-265.
- Unger 1976, pp. 265-266.
- Parsons 1977, p. 145.
- Parsons 1977, p. 149.
- Dauer 1977, p. 1106.
- Eder 1977, p. 142-143.
- Stewart 1976, pp. 990-991.
- Duxbury 1986, p. 673.
- Duxbury 1986, p. 679.
- Rubin 1976, p. 114.
