Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Frank Ruda’s Philosophical Oeuvre vii
4. Preface to the English Edition: Freedom as Slavery xi
5. Abbreviations xxv
6. Introduction: Indifference and the History of Philosophical Rationalism 1
7. 1 Descartes and the Transcendental of All My Future Errors 13
8. 2 Kant and the Fall into Natural Necessity 47
9. 3 Hegel, the Dead Disposition, and the Mortification of Freedom 82
10. Conclusion: Toward Another Type of Indifference 113
11. Translator’s Afterword 127
12. Acknowledgments 133
13. Notes 135
14. Bibliography 171
15. Index 183