Author(s): John Ó Maoilearca (Author, Editor), Anthony Paul Smith (Author, Editor)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 4 July 2012
Edition: annotated edition
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0748645357
ISBN-13: 9780748645350
Book Description
This is the first collection of critical essays on the work of this most original thinker. Francois Laruelle is one of the most important French philosophers of the last 20 years, and as his texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly on the concept of ‘Non-philosophy’. Non-philosophy radically rethinks many of the most cutting-edge concepts such as immanence, pluralism, resistance, science, democracy, decisionism, Marxism, theology and materialism. It also expands our view of what counts as philosophical thought, through art, science and politics, and beyond to fields as varied as film, animality and material objects. This title provides an overview of Laruelle’s thought and how it relates to contemporary debates and other philosophies, introducing and contexualising Laruelle for new readers and making it relevant to students and academics with broader interests. It contains an exclusive interview with Laruelle giving an insight into non-philosophy. It includes the contributors are the best and most current commentators on Laruelle, and the volume includes a new essay written by Laruelle himself. It includes a bibliography of Laruelle’s work and secondary literature.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This collection is the first significant work commenting on [Laruelle’s] ideas. For those already familiar with him, the book will satisfy with a well-rounded introduction, 10 essays engaging the material in diverse ways, a contribution from Laruelle, and an intriguing interview with him as well. –LSE Review of Books
Non-philosophy is neither a school nor a method, and it is not simply another way of doing philosophy by other means. Maoilearca and Smith demonstrate this in their selection of essays for this volume; each essay refuses the traditional explanatory or representational functions of philosophy, preferring to see thought as co-extensive with a real in which it is imbricated. A welcome addition to the growing engagement with Laruelle and non-philosophy. –Eugene Thacker, The New School
From the Back Cover
Non-philosophy is neither a school nor a method, and it is not simply another way of doing philosophy by other means. Mullarkey and Smith demonstrate this in their selection of essays for this volume; each essay refuses the traditional explanatory or representational functions of philosophy, preferring to see thought as co-extensive with a real in which it is imbricated. A welcome addition to the growing engagement with Laruelle and non-philosophy.
Eugene Thacker, The New School
The first collection of essays in English on the work of this most original thinker
François Laruelle is one of the most important French philosophers of the last 20 years, and as his texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly in the concept of ‘non-philosophy’.
Non-philosophy radically rethinks many of the most cutting-edge concepts such as immanence, pluralism, resistance, science, democracy, decisionism, Marxism, theology and materialism. It also expands our view of what counts as philosophical thought, through art, science, politics, and beyond into fields as varied as film, animality and material objects.
This collection of 12 essays includes an exclusive interview with Laruelle, a new essay by him and a bibliography. It is an indispensable guide for those seeking an overview of his thought as well as an understanding of its contemporary relevance.
John Mullarkey is Professor of Film and Television at Kingston University. Anthony Paul Smith is Assistant Professor in Religion at La Salle University.
About the Author
John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University London. Anthony Paul Smith is completing a PhD at the University of Nottingham. He is also a research fellow at DePaul University’s Institute for Nature and Culture.
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