An impressive interdisciplinary engagement with one of the most challenging problem of our time - the crisis of the individual subject.

Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology, University of Kent, UK

Peter Zima has added another hugely impressive work to the corpus in which, over the past three decades, he has done so much to illuminate the sources and development of modern critical theory. Indeed this stands as something of a high-point and grand summation of his thinking to date. Although the topic is one much debated amongst the lingering heirs of multiple successive movements in European philosophy and intellectual history it has never previously been surveyed in such depth or with such a sustained power of critical and speculative thought. Altogether a notable achievement and a book that belongs among the classics in its genre.

Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK