François Laruelle est un philosophe français qui a développé une science de la philosophie connue sous le nom de 'non-philosophie'. Son travail se caractérise par un départ radical des approches philosophiques traditionnelles. Laruelle explore les possibilités de la pensée en dehors des limites des formes et des concepts philosophiques. Son œuvre exhaustive offre une perspective novatrice sur la relation entre philosophie, science et réalité.
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.
"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.