Rosanvallon's work deserves to be much more widely read in Anglophone countries, as it can be understood to be the political theoretical and historical complement to the economics of Thomas Piketty. (Notably, Arthur Goldhammer is the English translator for both.)

This book gives both a remarkably enlightening historical analysis of the decline of the welfare state and the egalitarian ideas which anchored it and a bold and clear roadmap for reviving those intellectual preconditions which can again animate a new form of equality that matches the challenges of the present, from climate change to emboldened xenophobia.