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Informationen zum Autor Fran ç ois Laruelle is a French philosopher formerly Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre) and the Collège International de Philosophie, France. He is the creator of the concept of 'non-philosophy' and author of over twenty works of philosophy. Klappentext A crucial text in the development of François Laruelle's oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, Philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and critical analysis of the philosophers of difference after Hegel and Nietzsche. Laruelle then uses this analysis to introduce a new theoretical practice of non-philosophical thought. Rather than presenting a narrative historical overview, Laruelle provides a series of rigorous critiques of the various interpretations of difference in Hegel, Nietzsche and Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida. From Laruelle's innovative theoretical perspective, the forms of philosophical difference that emerge appear as variations upon a unique, highly abstract structure of philosophical decision, the self-posing and self-legitimating essence of philosophy itself. Reconceived in terms of philosophical decision, the seemingly radical concept of philosophical difference is shown to configure rather the identity of philosophy as such, which thus becomes manifest as a contingent and no longer absolute form of thinking. The way is thereby opened for initiating a new form of thought, anticipated here with the development of a key notion of non-philosophy, the Vision-in-One. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Introduction \ Instructions \ 1. Introduction: From the Aporias of Difference to the Vision-in-One \ 2. Syntax of Difference \ 3. Reality of Difference \ 4. Hegel and Heidegger \ 5. Derrida \ 6. Critique of Difference \ 7. Theory of Philosophical Decision \ Index.
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Translator's Introduction Instructions 1. Introduction: From the Aporias of Difference to the Vision-in-One 2. Syntax of Difference 3. Reality of Difference 4. Hegel and Heidegger 5. Derrida 6. Critique of Difference 7. Theory of Philosophical Decision Index.
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Laruelle's work is ground-breaking, but he is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. This will certainly change with Gangle's translation of this indispensable text, which is probably the most important summation of Laruelle's 'non-philosophy'. Kenneth Surin, Duke University, USA
