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Biography. Family. Unger's maternal grandfather was Octávio Mangabeira, who served as Brazil's minister of foreign affairs in the late 1920s before the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas subjected him to a series of imprisonments and exiles in Europe and the United States. After returning to Brazil in 1945, he co-founded a center-left party.
Oct 3, 2014 · Politics and the intellect were always prized in Unger’s family. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947 but raised in New York where his Brazilian mother, a poet, read him Plato’s Republic when ...
His German -born father, Artur Unger, from Dresden, arrived in the United States as a child and later became a U.S. citizen. His mother, Edyla Mangabeira, was a Brazilian poet and journalist. Artur and Edyla met in the US during the exile of Octávio Mangabeira.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, one of the world's leading political thinkers, outlines his vision for the political left, based on a rejection of the institutional and ideological settlement of the late-20th century, and discusses what this ambitious view of progressive politics means for civil society, public health and education services, the UK ...
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira 1947–PERSONAL:Born 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; mother a journalist and poet; married; children: four. Education: Attended college in Brazil; Harvard University, law degree. Hobbies and other interests: Playing the cello.
Feb 2, 2008 · Mr. Unger’s second love was politics, which he inherited from his mother’s side. Her father, Mr. Mangabeira, was a former astronomy professor who became one of the most powerful governors of ...
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The System Cannot Hold: Having Left the EU, the United Kingdom Must Embark on a National Programme of Self-Renewal, New Statesman, Mar. 19, 2021, at 23.
