Between dialogue and dissent: a discussion of the theses of Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Abstract

This pa­per discusses the importance of Roberto Man­gabeira Unger’s ideas, since he establishes new parameters for the occidental democracy, the institutions and the Brazilian society as a who­le. His theory, by attempting to re-qualify the debate on democracy from the adoption of new institutional alternatives, expresses an expe­rimentalist bias. Using Marxist assumptions with schumpeterian assumptions, the author is considered, in Anderson’s (1992) words, as: “a prophet of the first world, from a philosophi­cal approach of the third world”. In this way, understanding his theories and dialoguing/ disagreeing become key objectives of this work.