Frank Ruda
Biographic Data
| ID | 451518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Ruda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruda |
| SIGNATURE | RUDA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4376-281X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Gaps. Is There a Politics of Absolute Knowing
The final pages of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia announce a particularly fraught transition. Hegel is describing a move from the concrete world of social and political institutions to the sublimated spheres of art, religion and philosophy—the transition from ‘objective’ to ‘absolute’ spirit. This transition is intricate, partly because, like all transitions, it works in both directions—in this case, from politics to culture and back again. Transition is …
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Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
This book analyses how freedom can become a signifier of disorientation and oppression. Its main claim is that this becomes effective and operative by creating an “ideology of freedom” that relies on turning freedom into a natural capacity to indifferently choose. The book shows how modern philosophy repeatedly analyses this detrimental effect on our understanding and practices of freedom and can therefore serve as a critical guide against turnin…
Contradictions of Modern Society
The present article considers a fundamental problem of modern societies that manifests in the phenomena of poverty and wealth. This problem will be addressed by drawing on three thinkers who provide insights that will be condensed into one coherent theoretical position: Luhmann, Hegel and Foucault. Traversing these positions will allow to show in what way a constellation of their thoughts can help to understand pressing issues of modern society
Reading Marx
That Which Makes Itself
In § 244 of his Elements of the Philosophy of Right Hegel introduces what he refers to as 'the rabble', the Pöbel. It is this peculiar, and seemingly and allegedly marginal, 'topic' of Hegel's thought that can ultimately show why an early formulation of Hegel applies to (the late) Hegel himself. At one point between the ages of thirty-three and thirty-six Hegel wrote in his so-called Wastebook that 'original, completely wonderful works of educati…
Abolishing Freedom
Art and Contemporaneity
For Badiou
For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou’s thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou’s philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badiou’s project—especially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx—and on whose work Badiou has developed his provocativ…
Idealism Without Idealism
This article examines a contemporary proposal of how to conceive of materialism, more specifically of a materialist dialectics (another name for an immanent materialism). This proposal was formulated by Alain Badiou and it is of huge interest for the contemporary discussion as it inscribes the very historical coordinates in which it was articulated into its own proposal. The article develops this by arguing that Badiou's materialist dialectic his…
Remembering, repeating, working through Marx
The article starts from delineating the precise coordinates of the concept of action as it can be found in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. It argues in detail why to properly grasp its reach and with it what is at stake in the two philosophical enterprises can best be comprehended when it is read as an attempt of re-actualizing Marx. But, as the article demonstrates, actualization does not come down to being a mere gesture of repetitio…
Hegel's rabble
In Hegel's Rabble, Frank Ruda identifies and explores a crucial problem in the Hegelian philosophy of right that strikes at the heart of Hegel's conception of the state. This singular problem, which Ruda argues is the problem of Hegelian political thought, appears in Hegel's text only in a seemingly marginal form under the name of the "rabble": a particular side-effect of the dialectical deduction of the necessity of the existence of state from t…
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
Alles verpöbelt sich zusehends! Namenlosigkeit und generische Inklusion
Problematisiert die Systemtheorie die Exklusion, so tut sie dies, indem sie von einem Bereich spricht, dem alle Bestimmungen abgehen, in dem sich alle Attribute ausgesetzt finden. Die folgenden Überlegungen lassen sich von dieser Grundannahme leiten, um zunächst zu zeigen, inwiefern Luhmann daraus Argumente generieren kann, die andere mögliche Erklärungsmodelle der Exklusionsmechanismen so verstehen, dass diese ihre Radikalität verharmlosen. Jedo…
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
Idealism Without Idealism
This article examines a contemporary proposal of how to conceive of materialism, more specifically of a materialist dialectics (another name for an immanent materialism). This proposal was formulated by Alain Badiou and it is of huge interest for the contemporary discussion as it inscribes the very historical coordinates in which it was articulated into its own proposal. The article develops this by arguing that Badiou's materialist dialectic his…
For Badiou
For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou’s thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou’s philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badiou’s project—especially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx—and on whose work Badiou has developed his provocativ…
Remembering, repeating, working through Marx
The article starts from delineating the precise coordinates of the concept of action as it can be found in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. It argues in detail why to properly grasp its reach and with it what is at stake in the two philosophical enterprises can best be comprehended when it is read as an attempt of re-actualizing Marx. But, as the article demonstrates, actualization does not come down to being a mere gesture of repetitio…
Alles verpöbelt sich zusehends! Namenlosigkeit und generische Inklusion
Problematisiert die Systemtheorie die Exklusion, so tut sie dies, indem sie von einem Bereich spricht, dem alle Bestimmungen abgehen, in dem sich alle Attribute ausgesetzt finden. Die folgenden Überlegungen lassen sich von dieser Grundannahme leiten, um zunächst zu zeigen, inwiefern Luhmann daraus Argumente generieren kann, die andere mögliche Erklärungsmodelle der Exklusionsmechanismen so verstehen, dass diese ihre Radikalität verharmlosen. Jedo…
Hegel's rabble
In Hegel's Rabble, Frank Ruda identifies and explores a crucial problem in the Hegelian philosophy of right that strikes at the heart of Hegel's conception of the state. This singular problem, which Ruda argues is the problem of Hegelian political thought, appears in Hegel's text only in a seemingly marginal form under the name of the "rabble": a particular side-effect of the dialectical deduction of the necessity of the existence of state from t…
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
Remembering, repeating, working through Marx
The article starts from delineating the precise coordinates of the concept of action as it can be found in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. It argues in detail why to properly grasp its reach and with it what is at stake in the two philosophical enterprises can best be comprehended when it is read as an attempt of re-actualizing Marx. But, as the article demonstrates, actualization does not come down to being a mere gesture of repetitio…
Idealism Without Idealism
This article examines a contemporary proposal of how to conceive of materialism, more specifically of a materialist dialectics (another name for an immanent materialism). This proposal was formulated by Alain Badiou and it is of huge interest for the contemporary discussion as it inscribes the very historical coordinates in which it was articulated into its own proposal. The article develops this by arguing that Badiou's materialist dialectic his…
Art and Contemporaneity
For Badiou
For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou’s thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou’s philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badiou’s project—especially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx—and on whose work Badiou has developed his provocativ…
Abolishing Freedom
That Which Makes Itself
In § 244 of his Elements of the Philosophy of Right Hegel introduces what he refers to as 'the rabble', the Pöbel. It is this peculiar, and seemingly and allegedly marginal, 'topic' of Hegel's thought that can ultimately show why an early formulation of Hegel applies to (the late) Hegel himself. At one point between the ages of thirty-three and thirty-six Hegel wrote in his so-called Wastebook that 'original, completely wonderful works of educati…
Reading Marx
Contradictions of Modern Society
The present article considers a fundamental problem of modern societies that manifests in the phenomena of poverty and wealth. This problem will be addressed by drawing on three thinkers who provide insights that will be condensed into one coherent theoretical position: Luhmann, Hegel and Foucault. Traversing these positions will allow to show in what way a constellation of their thoughts can help to understand pressing issues of modern society
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
This book analyses how freedom can become a signifier of disorientation and oppression. Its main claim is that this becomes effective and operative by creating an “ideology of freedom” that relies on turning freedom into a natural capacity to indifferently choose. The book shows how modern philosophy repeatedly analyses this detrimental effect on our understanding and practices of freedom and can therefore serve as a critical guide against turnin…
On Gaps. Is There a Politics of Absolute Knowing
The final pages of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia announce a particularly fraught transition. Hegel is describing a move from the concrete world of social and political institutions to the sublimated spheres of art, religion and philosophy—the transition from ‘objective’ to ‘absolute’ spirit. This transition is intricate, partly because, like all transitions, it works in both directions—in this case, from politics to culture and back again. Transition is …
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Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Hegelianism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)