Introduction to Non-Marxism / François Laruelle ; translated by Anthony Paul Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laruelle, François, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Anthony Paul, 1982- translator.

Series:

Univocal

Standardized Title:

Introduction au non-marxisme. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Communism--Philosophy.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

Expanded English language edition.

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Univocal, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following the collapse of the communist states it was assumed that Marxist philosophy had collapsed with it. In "Introduction to Non-Marxism," Francois Laruelle aims to recover Marxism along with its failure by asking the question What is to be done with Marxism itself? To answer, Laruelle resists the temptation to make Marxism more palatable after the death of metaphysics by transforming Marxism into a mere social science or by simply embracing with evangelical fervor the idea of communism. Instead Laruelle proposes a heretical science of Marxism that will investigate Marxism in both its failure and power so as to fashion new theoretical tools. In the course of engaging with the material of Marxism, Laruelle takes on the philosophy of Marx along with important philosophers who have extended that philosophy including Althusser, Balibar, Negri as well as the attempt at a phenomenological Marxism found in the work of Michel Henry. Through this engagement Laruelle develops with great precision the history and function of his concept of determination-in-the-last-instance. In the midst of the assumed failure of Marxism and the defections and resentment that followed, Laruelle s non-Marxism responds with the bold declaration: Do not give up on theory "

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction to Non-Marxism; Introduction: Marxism and Non-Marxism; The Non-Marxist Hypothesis; Getting into the Program; Chapter 1: Theory of the Failure of Marxism; The Failure of the Explanations of Failure: Desertion and Resentment; Universal Conjuncture: ""The End of Metaphysics"" or ""The Failure of Marxism?""; From the Aspects of the Failure to their Cause-of-the-Last-Instance; Chapter 2: Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy; Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible; Unified Theory of Marxism

Marxism, a Miscarriage, a Material, a Symptom, a Limited Model Marxism's Philosophical Side; Philosophical Normalization; Non-Marxist Practice of Philosophy; Discovering the Identity of Marxism; Chapter 3: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance; First Elucidation of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI); Misadventures of Immanence (from Spinoza to Michel Henry); Amphibologies of Materialism; Insufficiency of Marxist Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI); Mechanism of DLI: The Cloning of the Superstructure; The Identically Scientific and Philosophical Theory of DLI

Chapter 4: The Style of Non-Marxism The Theoretical and Practical Style of Uni-lateral Duality: The Uni-lateral as the Real Kernel of Contradiction; Uni-lateral Repetition of Marxism; The Style of the Uni-versal: Marxism, Specification of Non-Marxism; Unified Theory: Marx and Freud As Symptoms; Deviations and Marxist ""Taste"": In What Sense Are All Marxisms ""Imaginary?""; Theory of ""Aspects"" - Unilateral Objects and Partial Objects - Other-without-Otherness; The Thousand Sources of Non-Marxism; Transcendental Axiomatization of Marxism: Theses and Categories, Axioms and First Terms

From the Problematic to the Unified Theory From Epistemological Break to Unified Theory; Chapter 5: Knowledge, Practice, Materialism; From the Cognitive to the Cognostic; Non-Marxism and Transcendental Science; From Adequacy-of-Truth to the True-without-Truth; Practice as Uni-laterality; Marxism and Non-Marxism on Practice; The Fusion-in-Practice of Theory and the Pragmatic; Materialism's Lost Axiomatic; Ideal Platonic Genesis of Materialism; Non-Platonism: Limited and Uni-versal; Three Models (Mechanism, Dialectic, Structuralism); Chapter 6: Subjects-in-Struggle

Unified Theory of the Subject, Practice, and Struggle Labor Power and Practical Force; Subject-without-Process: Subject-in-Struggle; Fusion of the Theoretical and Pragmatic within the Practical Subject; Classes Struggling, Class Struggle, Uni-Class Struggle; The Subject-in-Struggle and the Given Struggle, Identical-in-the-Last-Instance; The Non-Proletarian: The Non-Consistency of Communism; In Order to Introduce Democracy into Thought; Production that Is Non-Productive-(of)-Itself; From the Man without Qualities to the Man-without-Essence: Against Anthropological Consistency

From the Transindividual to the Indivi-dual

Notes:

Translated from French.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-937561-89-5

OCLC:

966856075