Principles of Non-Philosophy

Francois Laruelle, Nicola Rubczak, Anthony Paul Smith, Nicola Rubczak, Anthony Paul Smith

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781350009097
• eBook ISBN: 9781441142146
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents François Laruelle's mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the development of non-philosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of non-philosophical causality and new theories of the subject and object of thought. Providing an introduction to Laruelle's novel theory of 'non-epistemology' or 'unified theory of thought', this volumes challenges the way we think about the traditional philosophical problems. Bringing together all the elements of his thought developed over twenty years and laying the foundations for his later work, Principles of Non-Philosophy is arguably Laruelle's magnum opus.

Table of contents

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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Cloning the untranslatable: Translators’ introduction
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 PROBLEMATIC OF NON-PHILOSOPHY
• 2 “FIRST SCIENCE” AS UNIFIED THEORY OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: OR, DEMOCRACY WITHIN THOUGHT
• 3 UNIFIED OR “NON-CARTESIAN” THEORY OF THE SUBJECT: DUALITY OF THE EGO AND THE SUBJECT
• 4 DETERMINATION-IN-THE-LAST-INSTANCE: TRANSCENDENTAL THEOREM OF THE FORCE-(OF)-THOUGHT
• 5 THE METHOD OF DUALYSIS: (PERFORMATION, CLONING, A PRIORI)
• 6 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NON-PHILOSOPHICAL ORDER
• Notes
• Other works by François Laruelle
• Index