"A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself" --William Connolly, New York Times "One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past." -- Times Higher Education "Unger stakes out new discursive space that is neither simply left nor liberal, Marxist nor Lockean, anarchist nor Kantian . an emancipatory experimentalism toward ever-increasing democracy and individual freedom" --Cornel West "Here something new has occurred: a philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the First." --Perry Anderson "What makes Unger different is his orientation toward the future rather than the past--his hopefulness." --Richard Rorty "Unger insists on the need to refocus on what really matters, the human spirit." --John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times "Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill. A political philosopher extraordinaire." -- Chronicle of Higher Education "Through a 49-year career spanning politics, law, social and political theory and philosophy, Unger has put forward a collection of searching inquiries meant to pierce the liberal mythos of necessary progress.

Across dozens of books, including the recently published metaphysical tome The World and Us , the Brazilian philosopher has tried to think beyond 20th-century categories through a series of questions." --Samuel McIlhagga, UnHerd " The World and Us ruminates deeply while maintaining a readability often lacking in specialized, academic philosophy. Unger has written a book for the rest of us, after all. If he seeks our understanding, it's only so we might enjoy a better life ahead." --Michael Maiello, The Washington Independent Review of Books.