Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents / Frank Ruda, translated by Heather H. Yeung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruda, Frank, author.

Contributor:

Yeung, Heather H., translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book problematizes predominant and intuitive understandings of freedom as natural capacity. It demonstrates how these conceptions emerge with a specific form of modernity, notably capitalist modernity and thereby demonstrates how philosophy from its modern inception was always also a critique of capitalism and its notion of freedom.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: Frank Ruda's Philosophical Oeuvre by Alain Badiou

Preface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism

1. Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors

2. Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity

3. Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom

Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference

Translator's Afterword by Heather H.Yeung

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ruda, Frank Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

ISBN:

9781531505349

1531505341

OCLC:

1412622876