"This collection of superbly translated essays demonstrates once again that Axel Honneth is not only an academic philosopher of the first rank but also a public intellectual of international significance. The astounding range of essays included here - on topics from the contradictions in our understanding of childhood to the history of European solidarity to the relation between education and democracy - will be of supreme interest to philosophers and non-philosophers alike who have some inkling of the poverty of both our dominant conceptions of freedom and of the social institutions that are grounded in them."
--Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College, Columbia University

"These powerful and incisive essays are a major contribution to the contemporary struggle against fetishized conceptions of individual freedom. Their relevance in a world trying desperately to escape the impasse of neoliberalism is clear."
--Raymond Geuss, Professor (Emeritus), University of Cambridge

"Honneth's writing is excellent, and he presents conceptually dense topics in an accessible manner."
--Filozofia