Hegel's Rabble

understanding thecontemporary crisis. -- Aaron Schuster, Fellow, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany "Hegel's Rabble succeeds marvelously at revivifying Hegel in the early twenty-first century. Ruda's carefully argued and well-supported reconstruction of Hegel's Philosophy of Right as embedded in the Hegelian edifice as a whole challenges received wisdom about Hegel himself and Marx's relations with him. It also brilliantly illuminates the main problems at the heart of contemporary leftist socio-political theorizing. Ruda has made a major contribution to both Hegel scholarship as well as current discussions of Marxism and post-Marxism. Hegel's Rabble is mandatory reading for anyone interested in Hegel and radical leftism today." -- NDPR, Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico [A] study at once intensely focused in its analysis of this conceptual and social anomaly, and wide-ranging in its exploration of the way the figure of the rabble sheds new light on aspects of Hegel's thought...Hegel's Rabble represents one of the more remarkable books on Hegel's thought to have appeared in the past decade or two, alongside the likes of Catherine Malabou's The Future of Hegel or Slavoj eiuek's recent Less than Zero (eiuek, moreover, gives his imprimatur with a preface here). This alone is an enormous accomplishment. But like any transformative analysis of this sort, Hegel's Rabble is not only a meticulous reconstruction of an historical object; it is the reactivation of a force that shapes our own present and opens onto the future. -- Jason E. Smith Radical Philosophy Through his admirably detailed exegesis, Ruda argues that the unsolved problem of poverty reveals the defectiveness of the ideal of freedom animating all of Hegelian philosophy. This is obviously a major claim, and consequently the book will be of interest to Hegel scholars and students of modern political thought more generally... The book will also be of interest to students of contemporary left-Hegelian theory. -- Matt S. Whitt Theory and Event