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The book concludes with one text by Jacques Rancière and one by Axel Honneth. These texts make explicit the key methodological presuppositions of their models of critical theory and provide crucial material to better understand their positions in the contemporary scene. In the case of Honneth, one central question today concerns the impact of his shift to a Hegelian conception of freedom for his overall model. The text reproduced helps us to understand why Honneth felt he had to move from a quasi-transcendental or deep-psychological grounding of critical theory with Mead and the Jena Hegel to the new foundation relying on Hegel’s mature theory of modern institutions. Similarly, Rancière’s text clarifies the link between his well-known theses on politics and his continuing work on the philosophical and historical underpinnings of modern aesthetics.