Francois Laruelle's Philosophies of Difference

Gilles Deleuze described Laruelle’s thought as ‘one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy’. Now, Rocco Gangle – who translated Laruelle’s philosophy into English – takes you through Laruelle’s trailblazing book Philosophies of Difference, helping you to understand both Laruelle’s critique of Difference and his project of non-philosophy, which has become one of the most intriguing avenues in contemporary thought. He explains the context within which Laruelle’s thought developed and takes you through the challenging argument and conceptual scaffolding of ‘Philosophies of Difference’. Key Features: Critiques philosophical Difference as a whole and the 3 specific models treated by Laruelle: Nietzsche-Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida Situates Philosophies of Difference within the rest of Laruelle’s work and contemporary European thought Explains the key shift from philosophy to non-philosophy which makes Laruelle so intriguing to philosophers today Shows how Laruelle impacted on the work of Deleuze and Badiou and the Speculative Realism movement. About the Author Rocco Gangle is Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College. He is the author of several books, including Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (EUP) and, with Gianluca Caterina, Iconicity and Abduction (Springer), as well as dozens of journal articles and chapters in the areas of logic, phenomenology, semiotics, and philosophy of science. He is also a scholar and translator of the work of François Laruelle and co-director of the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy.

Rocco Gangle is professor of philosophy at Endicott College, where he has been teaching since 2007, having taught previously at Oberlin College and the University of California, Merced. He has published widely on such thinkers as Spinoza, Peirce, Deleuze, Levinas and Laruelle, and on a variety of topics in metaphysics, philosophy of science, political theology and diagrammatic logic. With Gianluca Caterina he co-directs the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy