Fellow 2024/2025Frank Ruda
Frank Ruda is a philosopher, currently serving as Chair of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He also holds a professorship in Philosophy at the European Graduate School and maintains guest professorships at several universities and educational institutions.
Dr. Ruda completed his Ph.D. at the University of Potsdam in 2009, focusing on Hegel's political philosophy. He later achieved his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin in 2017 with an in-depth exploration of the concept of freedom.
His publications include Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right (London, 2011), For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism (Evanston, 2015), and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (Nebraska, 2016). He has also co-authored texts such as Reading Marx (London, 2018) and Reading Hegel (London, 2022) with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek, as well as The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (Cambridge, 2018) with Rebecca Comay. His other works include Gegen-Freiheit. Für einen komischen Fatalismus (Konstanz, 2018) and Indifference and Repetition, or: Modern Freedom and Its Discontents (2023).
In addition to his scholarly publications, Dr. Ruda is a co-editor of the philosophico-political journal Crisis and Critique, which can be accessed here. His current research is focused on the concept of courage, particularly in the context of contemporary apocalyptic challenges.