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Theory of Identities
Fran Ois Laruelle
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Description for Theory of Identities
Hardback. Translator(s): Edlebi, Alyosha. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ; HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
Francois 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 ... Read more
Francois 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231168946
SKU
V9780231168946
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About Fran Ois Laruelle
Francois Laruelle is emeritus professor at the University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Defense (Paris X), and lectures at the College International de Philosophie. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy (2011) and Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (Columbia, 2015), and is the director of L'Organisation Non-Philosophique ... Read more
Reviews for Theory of Identities
Theory of Identities constitutes the most illustrative proof that 'non-philosophy is a synthesis of quantum theory and Marxism.' It is a testimony of the dense complexity of Laruelle's genius combining methodologically uncompromising scientific rigor and transgressiveness of a mystic's glance into what most of us would choose to avert our eyes from: the point where the comfort of neurosis ceases ... Read more