Frank Ruda is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK and Professor at the European Graduate School. His most recent publications include Reading Hegel (with Slavoj Žižek and Agon Hamza, Polity to appear in 2021), The Dash – the Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay, MIT Press, 2018). Reading Marx (with Slavoj Žižek and Agon Hamza, Polity 2018) and Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (Nebraska UP 2016). With Agon Hamza, he is the co-editor of the journal Crisis and Critique.