The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, A Greater Task - Softcover

"A restless visionary." - New York Times "A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables to become a synoptist and seer of the First." - Perry Anderson "One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past." - Lee Smolin, Times Higher Education Supplement

The Civil Rights and feminist movements of the sixties did not leave legal theory untouched. Over the following two decades, the Critical Legal Studies movement--led by the Brazilian philosopher, social theorist and politician Roberto Unger--sought to transform traditional views of law and legal doctrine, revealing the hidden interests and class dominations in prevailing legal frameworks. It remains highly influential, having spawned more recent movements, including feminist legal studies and Critical Race Theory. The Critical Legal Studies Movement develops its major ideas, showing how laws and legal discourse hide the social inequalities and political biases that so interest philosophy and revolutionary politics.