Roberto Mangabeira Unger (/ ˈ ʌ ŋ ɡ ər /; born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of classical social theory and pragmatism, and is developed across many fields including legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics. In natural philosophy he is known for The Singular …

Philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger recently attempted to revise classical social theory by exploring how things fit together, rather than to provide an all encompassing single explanation of a universal reality. He begins by recognizing the key insight of classical social theory of society as an artifact, and then by discarding ...

Richard Unger (born 1942), American historian and academic; Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian politician, social theorist and law professor at Harvard; Stephen A. Unger (born 1946), American executive recruiter, media and entertainment business; Tobias Unger (born 1979), German athlete, specialist in 100m and 200m

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Dilma Vana Rousseff [1] é filha do advogado e empreendedor búlgaro naturalizado brasileiro Pedro Rousseff [nota 2] e da professora Dilma Jane Coimbra Silva. [8] Seu pai foi filiado ao Partido Comunista Búlgaro e frequentava os círculos literários na década de 1920. [9] Chegou ao Brasil no fim da década de 1930. Em sua terra natal, deixara sua esposa esperando um filho, …

Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. CLS adherents claim that laws are devised to maintain the status quo of society and thereby codify its biases against marginalized groups.. Despite wide variation in the opinions of critical legal scholars around the world, there is general consensus regarding the key goals …

Roberto Mangabeira Unger appropriated Keats' term in order to explain resistance to rigid social divisions and hierarchies. For Unger, negative capability is the "denial of whatever in our contexts delivers us over to a fixed scheme of division and hierarchy and to an enforced choice between routine and rebellion."

Gilberto Kassab GOMM • GOMA (São Paulo, 12 de agosto de 1960) é um economista, engenheiro civil, empresário, corretor de imóveis e político brasileiro filiado ao Partido Social Democrático (PSD). [5] Foi ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações na gestão do presidente Michel Temer. [6]Foi prefeito da cidade de São Paulo por duas vezes …

In The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, co-authored with philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Smolin goes into more detail on his views on the physical passage of time. In contrast to the orthodox block universe view, Smolin argues that what instead exists is a "thick present" [27] [28] in which two events in the present can be ...

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (25 August 1803 – 7 May 1880), nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil.Like his father and uncles, Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal, then spent three years in …