This book problematizes predominant and intuitive understandings of freedom as natural capacity. It demonstrates how these conceptions emerge with a specific form of modernity, notably capitalist modernity and thereby demonstrates how philosophy from its modern inception was always also a critique of capitalism and its notion of freedom.

Foreword: Frank Rudäs Philosophical Oeuvre by Alain Badiou | vii
Preface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery | xi
List of Abbreviations | xxv
Introduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism | 1
1 Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors | 13
2 Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity | 47
3 Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom | 82
Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference | 113
Translator¿s Afterword by Heather H. Yeung | 127
Acknowledgments | 133
Notes | 135
Bibliography | 171
Index | 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