Hans Lindahl’s new book is an extremely valuable contribution. It offers a fresh notion of globalization
processes, grounded in a sound social ontology. Lindahl’s theory is described on the background
of most of the contemporary debate, painstakingly scrutinized in the book. The sobering conclusion
is that no Great Emancipation is truly possible: the only contingency-burden solutions are those normative
practices that Lindahl calls “restrained collective self-assertion”.
