Abolishing Freedom A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism / Frank Ruda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruda, Frank, author.

Series:

Provocation.

Provocations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Fate and fatalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination. Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors—Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud—defended not only freedom but also predestination and divine providence. By systematically investigating this mostly overlooked and seemingly paradoxical fact, Ruda demonstrates how real freedom conceptually presupposes the assumption that the worst has always already happened; in short, fatalism. In this brisk and witty interrogation of freedom, Ruda argues that only rationalist fatalism can cure the contemporary sickness whose paradoxical name today is freedom.  

Contents:

Fatalism in times of universalized assthetization

Protestant fatalism: predestination as emancipation

Ren the fatalist: abolishing (Aristotelian) freedom

From Kant to Schmid (and back): the end of all things

Ending with the worst: Hegel and absolute fatalism

After the end: Freud against the illusion of psychical freedom.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803288782

0803288786

9780803288805

0803288808

OCLC:

945613364