id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8165 Roberto Mangabeira Unger - Wikipedia .html text/html 12360 1209 60 Roberto Mangabeira Unger (/ˈʌŋɡər/; born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician.[3] He has developed his views and positions across many fields including legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics.[4] In legal theory he was part of the Critical Legal Studies movement, which helped disrupt the methodological consensus in American law schools.[5] His political activity helped the transition to democracy in Brazil in the aftermath of the military regime, and culminated with his appointment as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs in 2007 and again in 2015.[6][7][8] His work is seen to offer a vision of humanity and a program to empower individuals and change institutions.[9][10][11] For Unger, the market, the state, and human social organization should not be set in predetermined institutional arrangements, but need to be left open to experimentation and revision according to what works for the project of individual and collective empowerment. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8165.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8165.txt