Freedom is more than a right. It is one of the determinations of humanity and should be thought of emphatically: not only as freedom from want, immaturity, and thus unfreedom, but also and not least as freedom-to. To think of freedom within the concept of a good life is the endeavor of this book. It not only addresses the philosophical question of what the European heritage of emphatic freedom, a "coming democracy" (Derrida), and a "liberated humanity" (Adorno) means for future globalized humanity. Leaving behind postmodernity with its significant loss of utopia, the aim is to make fruitful the tradition of radical enlightenment and social revolutions for the idea of a future society of free people, where things are also in their rightful place. The Messianic is a part of this.