Anti-Badiou

François Laruelle is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense (Paris X) and lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie. He is the creator of the concept of 'non-philosophy', author of over twenty books, and director of L'Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of the UK arts organisation Urbanomic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of Kent, UK.

• Preface: The Re-education of Philosophy by Mathematics: Purification and Terror \ Introduction \ 1. A Short Synoptic Parallel \ 2. Modern Party Positions in Philosophy \ 3. The Old and New Relationship Between Science and Philosophy \ 4. Matrices and Principles \ 5. Subtraction and Superposition \ 6. Philosophy and Mathematics in the Mirror \ 7. Ontology and Materiality \ 8. Philo-Fiction \ Notes \ Index

The two most important living French theorists finally meet head to head, Badiou the best known and Laruelle the least. What results is a true disagreement, the first in a very long time. But don't expect the usual insults: Badiou as anachronistic Maoist, or Badiou as unrepentant Platonist. Laruelle's dagger is sharper and more deadly, for his target is Badiou the philosopher!