Frank Ruda

Abolishing Freedom

A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Frank Ruda¿is an interim professor for the philosophy of audiovisual media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar,¿Germany, and a visiting lecturer at Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of¿Hegel¿s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel¿s Philosophy of Right¿and¿For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780803284371
• ISBN-10: 0803284373
• Artikelnr.: 44142432

Autorenporträt

Frank Ruda is an interim professor for the philosophy of audiovisual media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and a visiting lecturer at Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right and For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Provocations
Introduction: Fatalism in Times of Universalized Assthetization
1. Protestant Fatalism: Predestination as Emancipation
2. René the Fatalist: Abolishing (Aristotelian) Freedom
3. From Kant to Schmid (and Back): The End of All Things
4. Ending with the Worst: Hegel and Absolute Fatalism
5. After the End: Freud against the Illusion of Psychical Freedom
Last Words
Notes