François Laruelle is a French philosopher who developed a science of philosophy known as 'non-philosophy.' His work is characterized by a radical departure from traditional philosophical approaches. Laruelle explores the possibilities of thought outside the confines of philosophical forms and concepts. His extensive body of work offers a novel perspective on the relationship between philosophy, science, and reality.
This book is a foundational text for our understanding of Francois Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines.
A revolutionary effort to restore the radical politics of Christianity and the inherent value of faith.
"General Theory of Victims" by François Laruelle redefines the role of philosophers by positioning victims as the cornerstone of humanity. Critiquing traditional philosophy's complicity in persecution, Laruelle introduces a victim-oriented ethics, blending ideas from quantum physics and theology to empower victims as active agents against oppression.
In this important new book, the leading philosopher Francois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in our societies today, specifically with regards to criminal justice.
Each generation invents new practices and new writings of philosophy. Ours should have been able to introduce certain mutations that would at least be equivalent with those of cubism, abstract art, and twelve-tone it has only partially done so. But after all the deconstructions, after Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Derrida, this demand takes on a different What do we do with philosophy itself? How do we globally change our relation to this thought, which keeps indicating that it is increasingly conservative and repetitive? These two questions together have prompted what we call “non-philosophy.”Non-philosophy is not the negation of philosophy. It is the suspension of philosophy’s claim to think the real (Principle of Sufficient Philosophy), and it is the invention of new usages of thought and language that disrupt the rational narrative of the real, which is precisely what every philosophy is. Non-philosophy should rather be understood à la the “non-Euclidean,” namely, as a generalization of the philosophical beyond its traditional limitation by the unitary or “Heraclitean” postulate. From then on, an infinite number of philosophical decisions that are no longer mutually exclusive will correspond with any real phenomenon.Philosophy and Non-Philosophy is widely considered the first fully explicit elaboration of non-philosophy and one of its most important introductory texts.
A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.
Following the collapse of the communist states it was assumed that Marxist philosophy had collapsed with it. Here, François Laruelle recovers Marxism along with its failure by asking the question 'What is to be done with Marxism?' To answer, Laruelle proposes a heretical science of Marxism that will investigate Marxism in both its failure and power.
Essays extending the research in The concept of non-photography, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011
Translation of: Dictionnaire de la non-philosophie. aEditions Kimae, 1998.
A new theory that reconciles scientific and philosophical ideas of the self.