Theory of Identities / François Laruelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laruelle, François, author.

Contributor:

Edlebi, Alyosha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with contemporary philosophy's reductive relation to science and its attachment to notions of singularity, difference, and multiplicity, which extends this crude approach. Laruelle's new theory of science, its objects, and philosophy, introduces an original vocabulary to elaborate the concepts of determination, fractality, and artificial philosophy, among other ideas, grounded in an understanding of the renewal of identity. Laruelle's work repairs the rift between philosophical and scientific inquiry and rehabilitates the concept of identity that continental philosophers have widely criticized. His argument positions him clearly against Deleuze, Badiou, the new materialists, and other thinkers who stray too far from empirical approaches that might revitalize philosophy's practical applications.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the English Edition: Retrospection (2014)

Preface to the French Edition (1992)

Introduction: Science, Identity, Fractality

Part I. The Essence of Science

1. Science: A Nonepistemological Description

2. Non-philosophy: A Scientific Reform of the Understanding

Part II. Theory of Generalized Fractality

3. Of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance as Destruction of the Principle of Sufficient Determination

4. The Concepts of Generalized Fractality and Chaos

Part III. Principles of an Artificial Philosophy

5. Unified Theory of Thought

6. The Concept of an Artificial Philosophy

7. The Fractal Modeling of Philosophy

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231541459

0231541457

OCLC:

948774570