Progress is social change towards a situation where conditions not only become different but better - for instance, through the abolition of slavery or the recognition of marital rape as a crime. Many would agree with this, yet the notion of general societal progress has lost its luster. It even evokes skepticism. In contrast, there is a growing tendency to assess the increase in authoritarian resentments and right-wing populist movements as a form of regression. In her book, Rahel Jaeggi defends the pair of concepts progress and regression as an indispensable social philosophical tool for diagnosing and critiquing our time. She understands not only the outcome but especially the nature of the societal transformation processes themselves as progressive or regressive. By seeking the underlying dynamics.