Region Western philosophy | Role Philosopher Name Francois Laruelle | |
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Notable ideas Principle of Sufficient Philosophy, the philosophical decision, the One, vision-in-one, clone, determination-in-the-last-instance Books Principles of Non‑Philosophy, Anti‑Badiou: The Introducti, Struggle and Utopia at the En, Introduction to Non‑Marxism, Non‑philosophy Project: Essays Similar People Ray Brassier, Gilles Deleuze, Quentin Meillassoux, Alain Badiou, Felix Guattari | ||
Education Ecole Normale Superieure | ||
Fran ois laruelle part 1 new forms of realism in contemporary philosophy
François Laruelle ([laʁɥɛl] ; born 22 August 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle has been publishing since the early 1970s and now has around twenty book-length titles to his name. Alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, Laruelle is notable for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He currently directs an international organisation dedicated to furthering the cause of non-philosophy, the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale.
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- Fran ois laruelle part 1 new forms of realism in contemporary philosophy
- Fran ois laruelle why do philosophers use ethics
- Work
- Non philosophy
- Reception and influence
- References
Fran ois laruelle why do philosophers use ethics
Work
Laruelle divides his work into five periods: Philosophy I (1971–1981), Philosophy II (1981–1995), Philosophy III (1995–2002), Philosophy IV (2002–2008), and Philosophy V (2008–present). The work comprising Philosophy I finds Laruelle attempting to subvert concepts found in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida. Even at this early stage one can identify Laruelle's interest in adopting a transcendental stance towards philosophy. With Philosophy II, Laruelle makes a determined effort to develop a transcendental approach to philosophy itself. However, it is not until Philosophy III that Laruelle claims to have started the work of non-philosophy.
Non-philosophy
Laruelle claims that all forms of philosophy (from ancient philosophy to analytic philosophy to deconstruction and so on) are structured around a prior decision, but that all forms of philosophy remain constitutively blind to this decision. The 'decision' that Laruelle is concerned with here is the dialectical splitting of the world in order to grasp the world philosophically. Laruelle claims that the decisional structure of philosophy can only be grasped non-philosophically. In this sense, non-philosophy is a science of philosophy.
Reception and influence
A decade ago, he described by Scottish philosopher Ray Brassier as "the most important unknown philosopher working in Europe today" and was described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as "engaged in one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy." English-language reception of his work owes most to the efforts of Brassier, who published an account of Laruelle's non-philosophy in Radical Philosophy in 2003 and critically incorporated aspects of that work into his own project, set out in Nihil Unbound. Nowadays, Laruelle's international reception is growing with dozens of titles a year translated and published in English by such publishing houses as Polity Books, Edinburgh University Press, Continuum, Palgrave Macmillan, Columbia University Press, Urbanomic/Sequence and others.
