Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves, Spectator
One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years ... a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking -- John Gray, Literary Review
A brave, brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition -- Paul Lay, History Today
Thoroughly interesting and fundamentally convincing ... admirably nuanced ... formidable ... Inventing the Individual is written with effortless lucidity -- Jeffrey Collins, TLS
An engrossing book of ideas ... illuminating, beautifully written and rigorously argued -- Kenan Malik, Independent
A most impressive work of philosophical history -- Robert Skidelsky