Abolishing Freedom : A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism - Frank Ruda

Abolishing Freedom

A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

By: Frank Ruda

Paperback | 1 May 2016

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Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.

Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors-Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud-defended not only freedom but also predestination and divine providence. By systematically investigating this mostly overlooked and seemingly paradoxical fact, Ruda demonstrates how real freedom conceptually presupposes the assumption that the worst has always already happened; in short, fatalism. In this brisk and witty interrogation of freedom, Ruda argues that only rationalist fatalism can cure the contemporary sickness whose paradoxical name today is freedom.


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"Abolishing Freedom is both philosophically and stylistically daring."-Michael Principe, Marx and Philosophy
"Abolishing Freedom is not only the very acme of today's philosophy, but much more-it is a book for everyone who is tired of all the ideological babble about freedom of choice."-Slavoj Zizek, author of Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism


"Appropriating it as a natural right, a possession that can be taken away, the sign of the subject's sovereignty, liberalism has given freedom a bad name. Yet how to think without acknowledging the fact of freedom? In his delightful book, Ruda shows us the way. Reducing the liberal edifice to rubble, he rescues a freedom that is in no way ad libitum."-Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation

"This is an utterly captivating, smart, provocative book-compelling in its argument, fascinating in its detail, sobering in its implications. Absolutely exhilarating."-Rebecca Comay, author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution

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