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.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Frank Ruda
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Translators: |
Heather H. Yeung
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Foreword by: |
Alain Badiou
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5315-0531-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5315-0531-7 |
Barcode: |
9781531505318 |
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