Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-Philosophy

Francois Laruelle

ISBN 10: 0826436633 / ISBN 13: 9780826436634

Verlag: Continuum March 2011, 2011

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1503118

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A crucial text in the development of François 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 narrative 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Francois Laruelle

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Titel: Philosophies of Difference: A Critical ...
Verlag: Continuum March 2011
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: VG
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good