Principles of Non-Philosophy

"Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents François Laruelle's mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the development of non-philosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of non-philosophical causality and new theories of the subject and object of thought. Providing an introduction to Laruelle's novel theory of 'non-epistemology' or 'unified theory of thought', this volumes challenges the way we think about the traditional philosophical problems. Bringing together all the elements of his thought developed over twenty years and laying the foundations for his later work, Principles of Non-Philosophy is arguably Laruelle's magnum opus."--Bloomsbury Publishing. FC Half title Also Available From Bloomsbury Title Copyright Contents Cloning the untranslatable: Translators’ introduction Preface Introduction 1 PROBLEMATIC OF NON-PHILOSOPHY The “first names” that distinguish non-philosophy from philosophy The three discoveries which ground non-philosophy What would “thinking (from) the one” mean? A solution to a non-philosophical problem On non-philosophy as thought-in-cause (without-object) and in-support (without-subject) Theory of cloning History of non-philosophy: Philosophies I, II, and III 2 “FIRST SCIENCE” AS UNIFIED THEORY OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: OR, DEMOCRACY WITHIN THOUGHT The concept of “First Science” When is “First Science” first? On priority-without-primacy Unitary theory and unified theory Introducing democracy into thought Sense and limits to this formula: “New Science” rather than “New Philosophy” The philosophical, scientific, and mystical Philosophy as resistance and as necessary reference of non-philosophy How science comes to philosophy: The non-Husserlian paradigm How thought comes to science: The non-Gödelian paradigm Processes of unified theory 3 UNIFIED OR “NON-CARTESIAN” THEORY OF THE SUBJECT: DUALITY OF THE EGO AND THE SUBJECT From the dialectic of the subject to the unified theory of the subject Egology as the philosophical decision of the “cogito” Typology of philosophical critiques of the “cogito” Real critique of philosophies of the Ego The phenomenal fulfilling of indicative formulas: “Thinking the Ego” or “Theory of the Subject” From the Ego to the Subject as “force-(of)-thought” How the Ego determines-in-the-last-instance the Subject or the force-(of)-thought: From auto-reflection to axiomatic thought Force-(of)-thought and auto-affection The problem of “knowledge” of the Ego: Refutation of the idealism of auto-affection 4 DETERMINATION-IN-THE-LAST-INSTANCE: TRANSCENDENTAL THEOREM OF THE FORCE-(OF)-THOUGHT The causality of the one as determination-in-the-last-instance: A general outline Development of the concept of “determination-in-the-last-instance” On causality as “unilateral duality” Problems of a transcendental syntax: Critique of transcendental arithmetic The ingredients of syntax: Unidentity and unilaterality The essence of the transcendental as originary cloning of the real One: Cloning and speculation Theorem of the force-(of)-thought, first axiom: The one-in-one or the real, the transcendental and logic Theorem of the force-(of)-thought, second axiom: The non(-one) or resistance to the one Theorem of the force-(of)-thought as transcendental organon Problems of the manifestation of the force-(of)-thought Reminders and remarks 5 THE METHOD OF DUALYSIS: (PERFORMATION, CLONING, A PRIORI) The identity of thought rather than its totality: Its unified theory rather than its encyclopedia The determination of thought rather than its subtraction The performativity of thought rather than its deconstruction: From the judaic turn to non-philosophical performation On the performed-without-performation The force-(of)-thought as transcendental performation: The identity of practice From the repetition of difference to the performation of identity: Possibilization and performation On transcendental cloning as dualysis of mixtures Non-philosophy and a philosophy of immanence The givenness of non-philosophy Thinking once-each-time: Generalization of the transcendental dialectic On philosophy as “transcendental mythology” Theoretical universality: Generality, totality, identity of universality Dissolution of the amphibology of the real and knowledge: Their unilateral duality Inducing-deducing as much as transcending The force-(of)-thought as non-rational identity of reason: Real critique of pure reason The non-philosophical usage of language: Conceptual symbolism, first names, and words-without-language The measure in which the real is not symbolizable: The non-linguistic identity of language. A non-philosophical translation of philosophies Transcendental theorems on the idiom of the One An intelligible kingdom of thought 6 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NON-PHILOSOPHICAL ORDER SECTION I: ANALYTIC OF PHILOSOPHICAL DECISION Structure, layers, or levels of Philosophical Decision Mechanism of Philosophical Decision in terms of givenness of the extra-philosophical On philosophy as non-philosophy’s guiding thread SECTION II: MECHANISMS OF PASSAGE TO NON-PHILOSOPHY Transcendental induction and deduction of the noetic aspect of the a priori Transcendental induction and deduction of the noematic aspect of the a priori Production of the non-philosophical a priori as such: The noetico-noematic duality Constitution of the a priori: Occasion, support, materials, overdetermination Economy of the transcendental and the a priori: Real critique of pure reason Discovery and non-specularity: Non-Copernican mutation within truth SECTION III: FUNDAMENTAL APRIORISTIC STRUCTURES Table of fundamental structures Internal structure of the force-(of)-thought The non-philosophical a prioris of philosophy as materials On philosophy as generalized transcendental aesthetic and logic SECTION IV: THEOREMS FOR A PRAGMATIC OF PHILOSOPHY The style and objects of non-philosophy as theoretical pragmatic Theorems for philosophy From the philosophical resolution of antinomies to theory and the explication of mixtures Notes Other works by François Laruelle Index "Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents Franȯis Laruelle's mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the development of non-philosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of non-philosophical causality and new theories of the subject and object of thought. Providing an introduction to Laruelle's novel theory of 'non-epistemology' or 'unified theory of thought', this volumes challenges the way we think about the traditional philosophical problems. Bringing together all the elements of his thought developed over twenty years and laying the foundations for his later work, Principles of Non-Philosophy is arguably Laruelle's magnum opus."--Bloomsbury Publishing Principles of Non-Philosophy" is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents Fran ois Laruelle's mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the development of non-philosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of non-philosophical causality and new theories of the subject and object of thought. Providing an introduction to Laruelle's novel theory of 'non-epistemology' or 'unified theory of thought', this volumes challenges the way we think about the traditional philosophical problems.Bringing together all the elements of his thought developed over twenty years and laying the foundations for his later work, "Principles of Non-Philosophy" is arguably Laruelle's magnum opus.