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Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy

by François Laruelle
translated by Drew S. Burk and Anthony Paul Smith
University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Paper: 978-1-937561-05-5 | eISBN: 978-1-937561-27-7 (EPUBMOBI) | eISBN: 978-1-937561-61-1 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification B804.L27413 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 194

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

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