Frank Ruda: "What we call freedom today is a marker of oppression"
Frank Ruda is one of the more famous German interpreters and experts in Hegel today. Although he is a lecturer at the University of Scotland at Dundee, but in recent years he has closely connected with many prominent Slovenian philosophers and has become involved in controversies here. Already in 2015, we received his first major book, Hegel's Slovene, in Slovene translation, and last week a new work with the somewhat challenging title Abolish Freedom - a Defense of the Modern Use of Fatalism, which philosopher Simon Hajdini also called a little liberating: in the flood of manuals for success and during a period of obsession with performance, this is supposed to be a guide with tips on how to fail (and enjoy).
In recent years, we have been trying to understand why and where populists such as Trump or Johnson came to power. You remembered one of the more convincing explanations, namely: the government is shaking us.
Frank Ruda: "To, čemur danes pravimo svoboda, je označevalec zatiranja"
Frank Ruda je danes eden bolj znanih nemških interpretov in poznavalcev Hegla. Sicer predava na škotski univerzi v Dundeeju, a se je v zadnjih letih tesno povezal s številnimi uglednimi slovenskimi filozofi in se vključil v tukajšnje polemike. Že leta 2015 smo v slovenskem prevodu dobili njegovo prvo pomembnejšo knjigo Heglova drhal, minuli teden pa že novo delo z nekoliko izzivalnim naslovom Ukinimo svobodo – zagovor sodobne rabe fatalizma, ki jo je filozof Simon Hajdini označil tudi za malce osvobajajočo: v poplavi priročnikov za uspeh in v obdobju obsedenosti z uspešnostjo naj bi bil to priročnik z nasveti, kako ne uspeti (in pri tem uživati).
Zadnja leta poskušamo razumeti, zakaj in od kod so se na oblast zavihteli populisti, kakršen je Trump ali Johnson. Spomnili ste se ene od prepričljivejših razlag, in sicer: vlada nam drhal.