{"product_id":"indifference-and-repetition-or-modern-freedom-and-its-discontents-paperback","title":"Indifference and Repetition; Or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Ruda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHeather H. Yeung\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The free offer of freedom, of a capacity one is permitted to use at will, is a gift horse Ruda looks in the mouth. What he finds stowed away there is indifference and the arbitrariness of choice. The alternative he argues for is remarkable for being off-menu: a freedom won only from the negation of the given. A strongly argued, important book.\"--\u003cb\u003eJoan Copjec\u003c\/b\u003e, Brown University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndifference and Repetition\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and interesting challenge to the modern liberal ideology that freedom is our inalienable natural right. It offers a weapon against the illusory freedom of algorithmically determined choice in increasingly virtual social interactions.\"--\u003cb\u003eS. D. Chrostowska\u003c\/b\u003e, York University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ruda writes with authority, masterfully guiding readers through material that ranges from the familiar to the intriguingly obscure, while demonstrating how the latter still matters.\"--\u003cb\u003eVincent Lloyd\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Dignity: The Struggle against Domination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern 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 their subjects to no longer act and think freely. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Ruda\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eReading Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Ruda (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrank Ruda \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eReading Hegel \u003c\/i\u003e(with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek); \u003ci\u003eThe Dash--The \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOther Side of Absolute Knowing \u003c\/i\u003e(with Rebecca Comay); and \u003ci\u003eAbolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUse of Fatalism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e is former chair of the ﾉcole Normale Sup駻ieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Fran輟is Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather H. Yeung (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHeather H. 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