Assessing critical theory today, José Mauricio Domingues Emancipationand History focuses on the connection between history and emancipationcentering on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyondit. Classical and contemporary sociology and social theory are mobilizedto recover a robust theory capable of going beyond recurrent empirical,and therefore weaker, perspectives in emancipatory thought. Collective subiectivity and socialcreativity, history and sociology, analytical concepts and trend-concepts, social existential questions, the role of equal freedomand of immanent critique, secularization, capitalism, the modern state,‘populism'，the family and the meaning of citizenship, Marx, WeberBhaskar, Habermas, Laclau, Sousa Santos and Negri are topics andauthors that stand out in the book.