Entre o diálogo e a discordância: um debate sobre as teses de Roberto Mangabeira Unger ; Between dialogue and dissent: a discussion of the theses of Roberto Mangabeira Unger ; territory, colonial history, São Paulo, hinterland, urban network
Este artigo apresenta as principais teses do pensador Roberto Mangabeira Unger relacionadas a uma interpretação dos novos parâmetros da democracia ocidental, das instituições e da sociedade brasileira como um todo. Também desenvolve um diálogo com o autor, questionando alguns dos seus fundamentos. Mangabeira, ao pretender requalificar o debate sobre a democracia, a partir da adoção de novas alternativas institucionais, coloca-se num viés experimentalista. Utilizando-se de pressupostos marxistas numa mistura com pressupostos schumpeterianos, este autor é qualificado, nas palavras de Anderson (1992), como: "um profeta do primeiro mundo, a partir de uma abordagem filosófica do terceiro mundo". É nesse sentido que compreender suas teorias e dialogar/discordar tornam-se objetivos chaves deste trabalho. ; 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. ; 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.