<p>“In this profoundly compelling and exceptionally far-reaching book, Elisabeth Roudinesco ruthlessly exposes the benighted logic behind the emancipatory countenance of contemporary identity politics. Fierce, fearless, and forward-looking, she reclaims the legitimate right to an open debate in a world in which people’s desperate search for a redemptive identity has elicited new forms of intellectual, social, and ideological violence. I expect this book to create a storm, which will not only be perfect, but totally unavoidable and absolutely necessary.”<br /><b>Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, <i>Brunel University London</i></b><br /><br />“Roudinesco’s book makes an important, timely, and courageous contribution to the vexed issue of identity politics. Debunking ideologies that take ‘his majesty the ego’ as a weapon, her book shows concretely how the truth of the political subject emerges where identity fails. This is the work of a true historian, while touching the nerve of crucial debates of our present times.”<br /><b>Jean-Michel Rabaté, <i>University of Pennsylvania</i> and<i> American Academy of Arts and Sciences<br /><br /></i></b>“We are blessed to have such a guide into the murkiest regions of high theory.”<br /><b><i>Law & Liberty</i></b></p>