Frank Ruda is Chair of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, United Kingdom, and professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. His publications include Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right (2011), For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism (2015), and Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (2016). He has coauthored Reading Marx (2018) and Reading Hegel (2022) with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek, as well as The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (2018) with Rebecca Comay. His most recent book is Indifference and Repetition, or: Modern Freedom and Its Discontents (2023). Ruda is a coeditor of the journal Crisis and Critique.