{"product_id":"indifference-and-repetition-or-modern-freedom-and-its-discontents-paperback-softback-9781531505325","title":"Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531505325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank Ruda (Author), Heather H. Yeung (Translated by), Alain Badiou (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531505325\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.322 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. \u003ci\u003eIndifference and Repetition\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword: Frank Ruda's Philosophical Oeuvre \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Alain Badiou\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface to the English Edition: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreedom as Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e   xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e   xxv\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eDescartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors   13\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eKant and the Fall into Natural Necessity   47\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eHegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom   82\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: Toward Another Type of Indifference   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTranslator's Afterword by Heather H. Yeung\u003c\/i\u003e   127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  183\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681252110616,"sku":"9781531505325","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/indifference-and-repetition-or-modern-freedom-and-its-discontents-paperback-softback-9781531505325","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}