April 27, 2007
Unger Joins Brazilian Government
Dani Rodrik informs us that Roberto Unger has been appointed to the post of minister in the Brazilian government.
It seems like stuff out of a dream. My Harvard Law School colleague Roberto Mangabeira Unger, at once the most erudite and impenetrable man I know, has just been appointed a minister by President Lula in Brazil. Roberto will be heading a new ministry called, improbably, “the special secretariat for long-term actions.” His task: to draw out a long-term strategy for Brazilian government and society.
I taught a course called “One Way or Many” with Roberto for three years, and he has been one of my two most important sources of inspiration in recent years. He is not an easy man to follow, and I have often joked that it took me the whole three years to understand what he was saying in our course.
Posted by Robin Varghese at 01:27 PM | Permalink
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I read the first 20 odd pages of Roberto Unger's "THE SELF AWAKENED - PRAGMATISM UNBOUND" from the link on Dani Rodrik's page above.
While the content itself is not my cup of tea, the man's style of writing is astonishing. He has the profound ability to verbalize his exact thoughts, no matter how well he may understand them (and how his audience might not have an inkling as to what sparked the thought or why he's elaborating upon it), and to present them in a manner compelling enough to make you pay attention and want to understand what he wants to get across. Active learning.
That to me is a true teacher.
Posted by: Abbas Reza | Apr 27, 2007 2:02:39 PM
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