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 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.
ISBN: | 9781937561055 |
Publication date: | 1st November 2012 |
Author: | François Laruelle |
Publisher: | Univocal Publishing an imprint of University of Minnesota Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 220 pages |
Series: | Univocal |
Genres: |
Philosophy |