Laruelle and non-philosophy / edited by John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullarkey, John, Author.

Contributor:

Mullarkey, John.

Smith, Anthony Paul.

Series:

Critical connections (Edinburgh University Press)

Critical connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laruelle, François.

Philosophy.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first collection of critical essays on the work of this most original thinker. François Laruelle is one of the most important French philosophers of the last 20 years, and as his texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly on the concept of 'Non-Philosophy'. Non-philosophy radically rethinks many of the most cutting-edge concepts such as immanence, pluralism, resistance, science, democracy, decisionism, Marxism, theology and materialism. It also expands our view of what counts as philosophical thought, through art, science and p

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Non-Philosophical Inversion: Laruelle's Knowledge Without Domination; 1 Thinking From the One: Science and the Ancient Philosophical Figure of the One; 2 Laruelle Facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire; 3 Laruelle and Ordinary Life; 4 The Justice of Non-Philosophy; 5 Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction; 6 The Science-Thought of Laruelle and its Effects on Epistemology; 7 1 + 1 = 1: The Non-Consistency of Non-Philosophical Practice (Photo: Quantum: Fractal)

8 Transcendental Arguments, Axiomatic Truth, and the Difficulty of Overcoming Idealism9 Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist; 10 Theories of the Immanent Rebellion: Non-Marxism and Non-Christianity; 11Is Thinking Democratic? Or, How toIntroduce Theory into Democracy; 12 Non-Philosophy, Weapon of Last Defence: An Interview with François Laruelle; Notes on Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748645343

0748645349

9780748645367

0748645365

OCLC:

818846730