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Book SynopsisAs French philosopher Francois Laruelle's texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly on the concept of 'Non-philosophy'. This book provides an overview of Laruelle's thought and an understanding of his contemporary relevance.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Laruelle and Philosophy; Resistance to/of Philosophy; 2. Thinking from the One: Non-Philosophy and the Ancient Philosophical Figure of the One; 3. Laruelle facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire; 4. The Insufficiency of Philosophy; 5. Neither Greek nor Jew: Laruelle and the Critique of Metaphysics; Science, Immanence and the Ordinary; 6. Laruelle and Ordinary Life; 7. The Esoteric Ordinary: Laruelle and the Immanence of Mysticism; 8. Disjunction of Science and Philosophy: Axioms towards a Democracy in Thought; 9. Transcendental Conditions, Axiomatic Compulsion and the Problem of Philosophical Materialism; Practice and Politics; 10. Non-Philosophical Practice: The Case of Film-Philosophy; 11. Not Only as Structure, But Equally as Subject: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance from Marx to Laruelle; 12. Thinking Revolution in Terms of Non-Marxism and Non-Christianity; Mutations; 13. Generic Science: Or, the Second Non-Philosophy; 14. Interview with Francois Laruelle; Annotated Bibliography.
