The Poverty of Our Freedom Essays 2012 - 2019

"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