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The contemporary theory of false necessity attempts to realize this idea in its entirety, and to escape the limitations of liberal and Marxist theories. It aims to realize social plasticity by decoupling human freedom from any necessary social rules or historical trajectory. The theory recognizes the need for social rules, but also affirms the human potential to transcend them. Humanity need not be constrained by any structure.
==Development and content==
The development of the theory is credited to philosopher and politician [[Roberto Mangabeira Unger]]. His main book on the thesis, ''False Necessity: Anti-necessitarian social theory in the service of radical democracy,'' was first published in 1987 by Cambridge University Press, and reissued in 2004 by Verso with a new 124 page introduction, and a new appendix, "Five theses on the relation of religion to politics, illustrated by allusions to Brazilian experience."<ref>Unger, Roberto Mangabeira, ''False necessity: anti-necessitarian social theory in the service of radical democracy: from Politics, a work in constructive social theory,'' second edition (London: Verso, 2004).</ref>
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