Laruelle: A Stranger Thought - Couverture souple

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Smith, Anthony P.

 
9780745671239: Laruelle: A Stranger Thought
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ISBN 10 : 0745671233 ISBN 13 : 9780745671239
Editeur : Polity Press, 2016

Synopsis

François Laruelle�s �non-philosophy� or �non-standard philosophy� represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle�s work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. In this book Anthony Paul Smith dispels this misunderstanding and shows how Laruelle�s critique of philosophy is guided by the positive aim of understanding philosophy�s structure so that it can be creatively recast with other discourses and domains of human knowledge, from politics and ethics to science and religion.

This book provides a synthetic introduction to the whole of Laruelle�s work. It begins by discussing the major concepts and methods that have framed non-philosophy for thirty years. Smith then goes on to show how those concepts and method enter into traditional philosophical domains and disempower the authoritarian framework that philosophy imposes upon them. Instead of offering a philosophy of politics or a philosophy of science, Laruelle aims at fostering a democracy of thought where philosophy is thought together and equal to the object of its inquiry.

This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in contemporary French philosophy, and anyone who wants to discover more about one of its foremost practitioners.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anthony Paul Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia, and a Research Fellow at DePaul University's Institute for Nature and Culture, Chicago.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745671233
ISBN 13 
9780745671239
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0745671225 ISBN 13 :  9780745671222
Editeur : Polity Press, 2016
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