Frank Ruda (Author) Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek); The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay); and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism. Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is former chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.Heather H. Yeung (Translator) Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (Poetry and Poetics) at the University of Dundee

• Foreword: Frank Ruda's Philosophical Oeuvre by Alain Badiou viiPreface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery xiList of Abbreviations xxvIntroduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism 11 Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors 132 Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity 473 Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom 82Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference 113Translator's Afterword by Heather H. Yeung 127Acknowledgments 133Notes 135Bibliography 171Index 183

Frank Ruda (Author) Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek); The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay); and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism. Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is former chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.Heather H. Yeung (Translator) Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (Poetry and Poetics) at the University of Dundee

• Foreword: Frank Ruda's Philosophical Oeuvre by Alain Badiou viiPreface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery xiList of Abbreviations xxvIntroduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism 11 Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors 132 Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity 473 Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom 82Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference 113Translator's Afterword by Heather H. Yeung 127Acknowledgments 133Notes 135Bibliography 171Index 183

Frank Ruda (Author) Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent books are Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek); The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay); and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism. Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is former chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and, with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard, founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.Heather H. Yeung (Translator) Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (Poetry and Poetics) at the University of Dundee

• Foreword: Frank Ruda's Philosophical Oeuvre by Alain Badiou viiPreface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery xiList of Abbreviations xxvIntroduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism 11 Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors 132 Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity 473 Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom 82Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference 113Translator's Afterword by Heather H. Yeung 127Acknowledgments 133Notes 135Bibliography 171Index 183