Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy |
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| Author:
| Laruelle, François |
| Translator:
| Burk, Drew S.
Smith, Anthony Paul |
| Series title: | Univocal Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-937561-05-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Very few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that François Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has merely been a utopia concerned with the past and only provided the services of its conservation. We must introduce a rigorous and nonimaginary practice of a utopia in action, a philo-fiction--a close relative to science fiction. From here we...
More DescriptionVery few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that François Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has merely been a utopia concerned with the past and only provided the services of its conservation. We must introduce a rigorous and nonimaginary practice of a utopia in action, a philo-fiction--a close relative to science fiction. From here we can see the double meaning of the watchword, a tabula rasa of the future. This new destination is imposed by a specifically human messianism, an eschatology within the limits of the Man-in-person as antihumanist ultimatum addressed to the History of Philosophy. This book elucidates some of the fundamental problems of non-philosophy and takes on its detractors.