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This book examines the relevance of François Laruelle's innovative notion of non-standard philosophy to critical and constructive discourses in the humanities, bringing together essays from prominent Anglophone scholars of Laruelle's work and includes a contribution from Laurelle himself.
List of contents
Acknowledgements/ 1. Introduction: Superposing Non-Standard Philosophy and Humanities Discourse, Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve/ 2 Circumventing the Problem of Initiation: On Introductions to Non-Philosophy, John Ó Maoilearca/ 3 (Non-)Human Identity and Radical Immanence: On Man-in-Person in François Laruelle's Non-Philosophy, Alex Dubilet/ 4 Prophetic Reiteration: Laruelle, Non-Relationality, and the Field of Religion, Daniel Colucciello Barber/ 5 Critical Theory as Theoretical Practice: Althusserianism in Laruelle and Adorno, Dave Mesing/ 6 The Decisional Apparatus: Jameson, Flusser, Laruelle, Julius Greve/ 7 The Inhuman and the Automaton: Exploitation and the Exploited in the Era of Late Capitalism, Katerina Kolozova/ 8 Expérience in the (Philosophical) Abyss, Benjamin Norris/ 9 Laruelle and the Humanities Research Program, Rocco Gangle/ 10 Generalized Transformations and Technologies of Investigation: Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model, Keith Tilford/ 11 Marx with Planck: The Quantization of Non-Standard Marxism, François Laruelle (trans. Rocco Gangle)/ 12 What is Generic Science?, Alexander R. Galloway/ Contributors/ Index
About the author
Rocco Gangle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College. He is the author of François Laruelle's Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide and Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (both with Edinburgh University Press) and the co-author, with Gianluca Caterina, of Iconicity and Abduction (Springer Press).
Julius Greve is a Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg. He recently completed his doctoral studies in American literature at the University of Cologne. Greve has published articles on Cormac McCarthy, Mark Z. Danielewski, Fredric Jameson, and Speculative Realism, and he is the co-editor of the essay collection America and the Musical Unconscious (Atropos, 2015). Currently, he is working on a book project on the concept of nature in the novels of McCarthy. Greve's further research interests encompass the tradition of intermediality in American cultural practices and the history of critical theory.
Summary
This book examines the relevance of Francois Laruelle's innovative notion of non-standard philosophy to critical and constructive discourses in the humanities, bringing together essays from prominent Anglophone scholars of Laruelle's work and includes a contribution from Laurelle himself.
