By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF This bad system has now issued in such a pompous display of power and such a terrible tyranny that […] the knowledge […] of liberty […] has utterly perished…. — M. Luther[1] I am worst at what I do best. — Nirvana, “Smells like Teen […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VI. Ending the Long March: On Aaron Schuster’s “I’m a Fatalist, But not by Choice” To end this long march through the wonderful counter-provocations against Abolishing Freedom, I will now finally […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part V. Excrementalism? From Hobbes to Maradona: On Andrew Pendakis’ “Dialectics of Determinism” This is the point where I’d like to turn to the reply of Andrew Pendakis, who painted a charming […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part IV. Fatalism and the Anthropocene: On Mark Pingree’s “Geohistorical Materialism” Against this background, Mark Pingree presents me, for several reasons, with a greater challenge. This is not because he criticizes my […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part III. The Significance of the Grotesque: On Andrew Cutrofello’s “But Wait—It Gets Worse” Andrew Cutrofello’s reply is so pointed that I will ruin its beauty by even commenting on it. So, […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part II. Kantian Problems? On Alenka Zupančič’s “The End” Against this background, let me finally turn to my inquisitors. I will pass through the individual counter-provocations and address some of the points […]
By Frank Ruda Issue 1 September 24, 2020 Download PDF Intro Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part I. Introduction: Catastrophic Messianism and Beyond 1. Mythical Catastrophism It is well-known that Walter Benjamin in one of his most famous texts, the Critique of Violence,[1] draws on one of the […]
By Andrew Pendakis Issue 1 July 11, 2017 Download PDF We Are All Compatibilists Now The metaphysics of the shopper owes a secret debt to Hobbes. Like Kant, Hobbes espoused a metaphysics of freedom that was compatibilist. Unlike Kant, he was able to balance consistent scientific materialism with the requirements of freedom, not by […]
By Mark Pingree Issue 1 February 21, 2016 Download PDF “But, in the end, it is the threat of universal extinction hanging over all the world today that changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man’s history.” —James Baldwin[1] “What if the always already might explode? […]
By Andrew Cutrofello Issue 1 January 30, 2016 Download PDF “Never to naught be brought. Never by naught be nulled. Unnullable least. Say that best worse.” —Samuel Beckett[1] Fatalistic readers of Frank Ruda’s 2011 book Hegel’s Rabble knew that it was only a matter of time before Donald Trump would be elected President of the […]