\"Rauch and Schneider\'s collection of Reiner Schürmann\'s essays confirms the growing recognition of the timeliness of his philosophising and the profound radicalism of his critique of philosophical and cultural modernity. It serves as a provocative introduction to his views on anarchy, law and modernity as well an indispensable supplement to the detailed historical analyses of Broken Hegemonies. The collection offers unique insight into the political investments informing Schürmann\'s history of metaphysics as the institution and destitution of principled regimes as well as clarifying his sense of the contemporary break with or \'diremption\' of this history and the emergent promise of a life and thought of anarchic joy\".

Howard Caygill, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, CRMEP, Kingston University, London