Roberto Mangabeira Unger vs. Buckminster Fuller
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
1947 – present
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics. In natural philosophy he is known for The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time.
"The imagination works by a principle of sympathy with the suppressed and subversive elements in experience. It sees the residues, memories, and reports of past …"
Buckminster Fuller
1895 – 1983
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R.
"There is nothing that a single massive sphere will or can ever do by itself that says it will both exert and yield attractively with a neighboring massive spher…"
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