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Indifference and Repetition; Or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

Indifference and Repetition; Or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents - Paperback

by Frank Ruda
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Availability:In StockContributor:Frank Ruda, Heather H. Yeung (Translator), Alain Badiou (Foreword by)Publish date:2023-12-05Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531505325ISBN-10:1531505325UPC:9781531505325Book Category:Philosophy, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, History & Theory, SociologyBook Topic:Critical Theory, Social TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCV90SXFQ7
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531505325ISBN-10:1531505325UPC:9781531505325Book Category:Philosophy, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, History & Theory, SociologyBook Topic:Critical Theory, Social TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCV90SXFQ7

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 École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François 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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Frank Ruda, Heather H. Yeung (Translator), Alain Badiou (Foreword by)

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