“In this brilliant and utterly original book, Astra Taylor tugs at two threads that run all through our social fabric and finds in the reality of insecurity and the idea of security an entirely new way to envision our problems and possibilities. It's a stunning work of social theory, but to call it that doesn't convey how much it touches on the troubles of this very moment, as well as their origins—while always reminding us that things can be different.” —Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things To Me

"Taylor makes the case for clearing away capitalism’s distracting, destabilising regime; Keltner for expanding and more clearly valuing our connections to each other, to our own depths and capacities, and to the grandeur and order of the world beyond." —New Statesman

"A handbook for a new way forward." —Literary Review of Canada

"Astra Taylor’s The Age of Insecurity made me feel I understood something obvious that I had overlooked before ... that we on the left can (and need to) offer a different, better conception of security." —Current Affairs

"Taylor asks us to contemplate a better world … This ethic of insecurity, collectivism and egalitarianism should be on the forefront of every educator’s mind." —Winnipeg Free Press

"The ideas that Taylor puts forth are not only radical, but world changing … The Age of Insecurity is exactly the right book at exactly the right time. That time is now." —The Tyee

"The Age of Insecurity doesn’t tackle those challenging questions. What it does, instead, is explain why our world hardly allows them to be posed and hardly gives us the breathing space to think about them. It is, yes, a readable and insightful analysis of our present. But we have a lot of those—maybe too many. What makes this book worth the reader’s time is its idiosyncratic blend of the personal and the public, the emotional and the economic." —Commonweal Magazine

"A must-read." —Peace News