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From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-standard Thought
Francois Laruelle
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Introductory collection of writings by a creative and subversive thinker, ranging from the origins of non-philosophy to its evolution into what Laruelle now calls non-standard philosophy. The question What is non-philosophy? must be replaced by the question about what it can and cannot do. To ask what it can do is already to acknowledge that its capacities are not unlimited. This question is partly Spinozist: no-one knows what a body can do. It is partly Kantian: circumscribe philosophy's illusory power, the power of reason or the faculties, and do not extend ... Read more
Introductory collection of writings by a creative and subversive thinker, ranging from the origins of non-philosophy to its evolution into what Laruelle now calls non-standard philosophy. The question What is non-philosophy? must be replaced by the question about what it can and cannot do. To ask what it can do is already to acknowledge that its capacities are not unlimited. This question is partly Spinozist: no-one knows what a body can do. It is partly Kantian: circumscribe philosophy's illusory power, the power of reason or the faculties, and do not extend ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sequence Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780983216902
SKU
V9780983216902
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About Francois Laruelle
Francois Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X (Nanterre), is the author of more than twenty books, including including Biography of the Ordinary Man, Theory of Strangers, Principles of Non-Philosophy, Future Christ, Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy, Anti-Badiou, and Non-Standard Philosophy. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic ... Read more
Reviews for From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-standard Thought
'Covering nearly thirty years of material, and so charting Laruelle's work through every stage of its turn to Non-Philosophy proper, From Decision to Heresy is a crucial volume for anyone coming to this radically different kind of thought for the first time. A very important collection.'-John O Maoilearca, Kingston University