Philosophies of difference : a critical introduction to non-philosophy / François Laruelle ; translated by Rocco Gangle.
| Author/creator | Laruelle, François |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010. |
| Description | xxii, 228 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Philosophies de la différence. English |
| Contents | Introduction ---- Syntax of difference -- Reality of difference -- Hegel and Heidegger -- Derrida -- Critique of difference -- Theory of philosophical decision. |
| Abstract | A crucial text in the development of Francois Laruelle's oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and critical analysis of the philosophers of difference after Hegel and Nietzsche. Laruelle then uses this analysis to introduce a new theoretical practice of non-philosophical thought. Rather than presenting a narrateive historical overview, Laruelle provides a series of rigorous critiques of the various interpretations of difference in Hegel, Nietzsche and Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida. From Laruelle's innovative theoretical perspective, the forms of philosophical difference that emerge appear as variations upon a unique, highly abstract structure of philosophical decision, the self-posing and self-legitimating essence of philosophy itself. Reconceived in terms of philosophical decision, the seemingly radical concept of philosophical difference is shown to configure rather the identity of philosophy as such, which thus becomes manifest as a contingent and no longer absolute form of thinking. The way is thereby opened for initiating a new form of thought, anticipated here with the development of a key notion of non-philosophy, the Vision-in-One. -- Jacket. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Language | Translated from the French. |
| LCCN | 2010019220 |
| ISBN | 9780826436634 |
| ISBN | 0826436633 |