The Passionate Politics of Unger
a radical variant of the Western experience
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https://doi.org/10.1344/astrolabio.v1i29.48454Keywords:
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Christianity, Western CivilizationAbstract
This article presents and discusses the influence of Christianity on the work of the Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who presents himself as an heir and continuator of what he sees as Western orthodoxy. It begins by examining the double Christian consciousness represented in the interpretations of Nietzsche (focusing on the question of resentment) and Unamuno (focusing on the problem of agony), both understood in the sense of forming the most characteristic values of Western civilisation. Next, we analyse the way in which Unger sees the development and translation of Christianity into the Romantic culture that flourished in European modernity. Finally, we reflect on the relationship between morality and politics, which for Unger unfolds in a specific democratic institutionality. We conclude that an order under the dominion of democratic experimentalism is better suited to the potential for the realisation of Western human identity.
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