Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
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Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

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Frank Ruda (Author) Heather H. Yeung (Contributor) Alain Badiou (Contributor)  

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In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism's effect on individuals and society. Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially rationalist philosophical thought, a problem of misunderstanding freedom. Thinkers like Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Marx claim that there are conceptions and interpretations of freedom that lead the subjects of these interpretations to no longer act and think freely. They are often unwillingly led into unfreedom. It is thus possible that even "freedom" enslaves. Modern philosophical rationalism, whose conceptual genealogy the books traces and unfolds, assigns a name to this peculiar form of domination by means of freedom: indifference. Indifference is a name for the assumption that freedom is something that human beings have: a given, a natural possession. When we think freedom is natural or a possession we lose freedom. Modern philosophy, Ruda shows, takes its shape through repeated attacks on freedom as indifference; it is the owl that begins its flight, so that the days of unfreedom will turn to dusk.
Frank Ruda (Author) Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek); The Dash-The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay); and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism.Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is former chair of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.Heather H. Yeung (Translator) Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (Poetry and Poetics) at the University of Dundee
  • Contributor: Frank Ruda
  • Imprint: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781531505325
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 322
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Release Date: 2023-12-05
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Frank Ruda (Author) Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek); The Dash-The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay); and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism.Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is former chair of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.Heather H. Yeung (Translator) Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (Poetry and Poetics) at the University of Dundee

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