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...anyone alive will complete the task begun in Knowledge and Politics, it will be Roberto Unger. The stories about his brilliance and dedication to scholarship abound: that he went through law school in two years, that he spent almost all his time at Harvard in the libraries devouring difficult philosophical tracts, and that he is the youngest member of the Law School faculty. He is considered such a whiz-kid that senior professors reportedly flock to his lectures...
...task was too great for anyone to master in his first work. Unger here is the great synthethizer rather than theoretical innovator. He stands on the shoulders of earlier giants, borrowing but rearranging their ideas to uncover the contradictions in liberal theory...
...Unger promises at the outset to utilize, unlike Marx and Weber, a form of "total" rather than "partial" criticism that will "serve as the key that will allow us to escape from the prison house" of paradoxical liberalism, "whose rooms did not connect and whose passageways led nowhere...
Childs and Unger had been with The Real Paper since it began in Auguest 1972 as a staff-owned, collectively-managed paper. Staff members said yesterday that Childs and Unger were militantly against selling the paper to Linsky's friend Ralph Fine, a Boston lawyer...
...several Real Paper staff members said yesterday that Linsky would have fired Craig Unger '71, who quit this week, saying he questions "whether Linsky is in touch with the Real Paper's constituency...