Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy (Univocal) - Softcover

Laruelle, François

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937561054 ISBN 13: 9781937561055

Publisher: Univocal Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Very few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that François Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has merely been a utopia concerned with the past and only provided the services of its conservation. We must introduce a rigorous and nonimaginary practice of a utopia in action, a philo-fiction—a close relative to science fiction. From here we can see the double meaning of the watchword, a tabula rasa of the future. This new destination is imposed by a specifically human messianism, an eschatology within the limits of the Man-in-person as antihumanist ultimatum addressed to the History of Philosophy. This book elucidates some of the fundamental problems of non-philosophy and takes on its detractors.

About this title

About the Author:

François Laruelle is professor emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défence and the inventor of the science of philosophy, non-philosophy.

Drew S. Burk is a cultural theorist and translator of contemporary French philosophy.

Anthony Paul Smith is an Assistant Professor of Religion at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univocal Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1937561054
• ISBN 13: 9781937561055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220