Principles of Non-Philosophy

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.Nicola Rubczak is a PhD candidate at the Centrefor Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University.Anthony Paul Smith is Assistant Professor in Religion at La Salle University and Fellow at the Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University.

• Cloning the Untranslatable: Translators' Introduction \ Preface \ Introduction \ 1. Problematic of Non-Philosophy \ 2. First Science as Unified Theory of Science and Philosophy: Or, Democracy within Thought \ 3. Unfied or "Non-Cartesian" Theory of the Subject: Duality of the Ego and the Subject \ 4. Determination-in-the-Last-Instance: Transcendental Theorem of the Force-(Of)-Thought \ 5. The Method of Dualysis: (Performation, Cloning, a priori) \ 6. The Constitution of the Non-Philosophical Order \ Index

At last Laruelle's first full articulation of non-philosophy is available in English, a book every bit as consequential as Deleuze's Difference and Repetition or Badiou's Being and Event. Here Laruelle takes two of the most appealing traditions in western thought, immanence and materialism, and drives them all the way to the end of the night. In so doing he ceases participation in philosophy entirely, forming no relation with it. Instead Laruelle runs along side philosophy, in parallel to it, subjecting philosophy's basic mannerisms to a more rigorous axiomatization. By withdrawing from the decision to reflect, Laruelle discovers the immanent destiny of nature, perhaps for the first time.