The idea of a general movement for progress has lost its luster; in fact, it even evokes skepticism. Instead, the diagnosis of regression is on everyone's lips. This diagnosis is applied to various contemporary phenomena, ranging from right-wing authoritarian populism to democratic fatigue. In her book, Rahel Jaeggi defends the pair of concepts progress and regression as an indispensable socio-philosophical tool for critiquing our times. She understands progress or regression not only as the outcome but, above all, as the very form of social transformations themselves. Progress, she shows, is not a prelude to a known goal, but rather an ongoing process of emancipation.