[T]he project of the modernist visionary: the search for individual and collective empowerment through the dissolution of the prewritten social script. (Roberto Mangabeira Unger)

[T]he project of the modernist visionary: the search for individual and collective empowerment through the dissolution of the prewritten social script.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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