I read the book and enjoyed it very much, there are many interesting ideas in it. If I recall correctly, he essentially claims that human rights and democracy are artificial belief systems without any more basis than any other religion. He also makes the interesting point that corporations are belief systems, like religions: The Peugeot-Citroen automobile company rests on nothing more than the beliefs that people associate with that name, and that the name, through legal documents, is even given property, owns the labour time of workers, etc. These are very interesting ideas, worth reflecting on. What struck me, however, is his utter nihilism and absolute relativism. His other book on Deus pushes the point further claiming humans will turn ourselves into gods. He didn't strike me as giving a conventional narrative of things. But then I saw him on a TV panel on Ukraine, and he had completely thrown out any iota of independent thinking, telling us that "the Ukrainians are teaching us how you can be liberal and nationalist at the same time", "Germany, we know you're not Nazis, get over your guilt and fight for Ukraine", "Ukraine is evidence that anybody, anywhere can build a thriving liberal democracy, Ukraine gives us hope in the universality of liberal democracy" -- the last point being especially strange since his book, the way I read it, essentially argued that democracy and human rights are belief systems without any more basis than communism, fascism or the Peugeot corporation. But here he was cheerleading for an endless war for Ukraine as a world model of democracy, ignoring his own professed nihilism as well as the evidence, amply reported by the Western mainstream media before the Russian invasion, that Ukraine is a deeply corrupt oligarchy and has a serious problem with neo-Nazis. One can want to defend Ukraine because they are humans and deserve to be protected against an invader (no matter what political system or ideology they have) on that ground alone, but not because they are models of liberal democracy! What astounded me is how, in the propaganda war, even scholars with critical minds throw it all out and align themselves completely with the imperial narrative.