Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Abstract
Of all the scholars associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement, none has garnered greater attention or higher praise than Roberto Unger of Harvard Law School. In this Article, William Ewald argues that Professor Unger's reputation as a brilliant philosopher of law is undeserved. Despite the seeming erudition of his books, Professor Unger's work displays little familiarity with the basic philosophical literature, and the philosophical, legal, and political analysis in those works-in particular, the celebrated critique of liberalism in Knowledge and Politics-is so riddled with logical and historical errors as to be unworthy of serious scholarly attention.
Keywords
Philosophy, Politics, Law and Society, Legal Philosophy
Publication Title
Yale Law Journal
Repository Citation
Ewald, William, "Unger's Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study" (1988). All Faculty Scholarship. 1284.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1284
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Publication Citation
97 Yale L.J. 665 (1988).