Laruelle, Francois. “Mon Parmenide.” La Decision philosophique 7 (1989): 105-114. On the argument: The One is One because it is One rather than because it is or is Other. Non-Parmenidian Axioms 1. If the One (etc.), the One is the real identity that …
A Lesson on Non-PhilosophyFrançois LaruelleIn En tant qu’un: la « non-philosophie » expliquée aux philosophes (Paris: Aubier, 1991), p.177-197. 1. The first task is to clarify the field of non-philosophy: its programme, its limits, its objects. And especially its name. The term “non-philosophy” …
Laruelle strives for a non-philosophical or generic machine that combines a philosophy robbed of its sufficiency (without comprehensive transcendentality) with a quantum physics robbed of its mathemathical apparatus (without calculation). The turning out of the non-standard philosophy from the philosophy …
The Organon of the Force (of) the LawFrançois LaruelleIn Éthique de l’étranger: du crime contre l’humanité (Paris: Kimé, 2000), p.327-338 The Non-Kantian Universalization of EthicsWe reprise the previous problem of the constitution of the Neighbour [Prochain] by transposing the problem into the …
The Organon of the Force (of) the Law, from Éthique de l’Étranger (2000)
The Real Phenomenal Content of the ‘Multitudo Transcendentalis’The first task is to get rid of the fantastical image, the circular projection that the unitary paradigm gives of People, Individuals or Ordinary Man. In particular, we must get rid of this representation of …
Difference and Identity: Theses on the Future of ThoughtFrançois LaruelleIn En tant qu’un: la « non-philosophie » expliquée aux philosophes (Paris: Aubier, 1991), p.116-121 I) Philosophy, or the domination of Difference over Identity1) In the history of philosophy, Difference and Identity have …
In Philosophie non-standard: générique, quantique, philo-fiction (Paris: Kimé, 2010), p.51-64 Along with the acronyms that we use, we add this glossary of notions proper to the generic treatment of the Quantum. It sums up necessary theoretical notions for the preparation of the …
“The Glossary of the Generic Quantum,” from Philosophie non-standard
Towards a Treatise of Speculative Music[1]François LaruelleIn Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2018), p.593-607. During my thesis defense, one juror, Clémence Ramnoux (a specialist in Greek philosophy including Heraclitus) said this premonitory statement: you wanted to make …
Marx’s study of the species being of humanity institutes itself as a science thatdeals with value production and the relation of value to material reality. Thisis obviously a metaphysical question, but the suggested approach is scientific.Therefore, the science to be …
The Non-Philosophical or Super-Philosophical Rebellion of Music: The Death of Socrates Set to Music Through the Reversal of the Socratic MetaphorFrançois LaruelleIn Tétralogos: Un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cerf, 2018), p.559-562. Can we imagine a non-philosophical, indeed a super-philosophical rebellion of music which …
The Non-Philosophical or Super-Philosophical Rebellion of Music
Selections from Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020), p.103-136. The bind-of-the-book [le rez-du-livre]Barely honoured by philosophy, will the book have the chance to be thrown off the shelves that stock and sell it, thrown out from catalogues …
In Le principe de minorité (Paris: Aubier, 1981), p.163-169. Under the names Technological Continuum, Difference, the Completed Amphibology or Continuous Multiplicities, we have identified the syntactic invariant kernel that rules the economy of the Same or Being-as-difference, the highest concepts that reached …