Frank Ruda is a German philosopher. He is professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is also the current Vice-President of the European Graduate School (EGS), where he is also a Professor of Philosophy. He received his PhD in 2008 from University of Potsdam under the supervision of Christoph Menke with a work on Hegel's Philosophy of Right and his venia legendi (Habilitation) in 2017 from the Free University Berlin.
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. London & New York: Continuum, 2011. For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism. With a preface by Slavoj Žižek. 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. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. Der Gedankenstrich – Die Kehrseite des absoluten Wissens (mit Rebecca Comay). Frankfurt am Main: Neue Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 2023.
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