Frank Ruda is a German philosopher. He is professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the

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. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Professor at the

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(EGS). He received his PhD in 2008 from

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under the supervision of Manfred Schneider and

Christoph Menke Christoph Menke (born November 22, 1958, in Cologne) is a German philosopher and Germanist. He has been Professor of Philosophy in Frankfurt am Main since 2009. He is considered an important representative of the 'third generation' of the Frankf ...

with a work on Hegel's Philosophy of Right and his venia legendi (Habilitation) in 2017 from the

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. Ruda is co-editor of the journal Crisis and Critique, where he also hosts a podcast (with Agon Hamza).

Works

* ''Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right''. With a preface by

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek ( ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...

. London & New York: Continuum, 2011. * ''For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism''. With a preface by

. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015. * ''Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. * ''The Dash - The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay).'' Cambridge: MIT Press Ltd, 2018. * ''Indifferenz und Wiederholung.'' Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2018. * ''Gegen-Freiheit. Komik und Fatalismus.'' Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2018. * ''Reading Marx (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek).'' London, Polity Press, 2018. * ''Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek).'' London, Polity Press, 2022. * ''Indifference and Repetition.'' With a preface by

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault ...

. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. * ''Der Gedankenstrich – Die Kehrseite des absoluten Wissens (mit Rebecca Comay).'' Frankfurt am Main: Neue Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 2023. https://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/details/frank-ruda.php

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