Frank Ruda is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Professor at the European Graduate School. His publications include:  Reading Hegel (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek) (Polity Press, forthcoming in 2022); Gegen-Freiheit. Für einen komischen Fatalismus (Konstanz University Press 2018);  Indifferenz und Wiederholung. Freiheit in der Moderne (Konstanz University Press 2018). [English translation, with a preface by Alain Badiou in preparation for 2022]; The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing, together with Rebecca Comay (MIT-Press 2018); Reading Marx, together with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek (Polity Press 2018); Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism, Nebraska: Nebraska University Press 2016.