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A course of lectures by one of the most prominent sociologists of our time, Ralph Darendorff, dedicated to a wide range of issues in contemporary sociology and political science. The author analyses contemporary social conflict as an antagonism between rights and their enforcement, politics and economics, civil rights and economic growth, and its peculiarities in the era of globalisation. The central themes of the study are: the position of liberal values in the modern era, in particular, freedom as an activity that makes it impossible to realise life chances.

The book is a collection of six lectures on the politics of freedom in an uncontrollable world, delivered by the author in 2001 and 2002.