Anti-Badiou : The Introduction of Maoism into Philosophy PDF
by Professor Francois Laruelle
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This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle. At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position of absolute immanence; both argue that philosophy is conditioned by science; and both command a pluralism of thought.
Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou's Maoist 'ontology of the void' and Laruelle's own performative practice of 'non-philosophy' and explains why the two are in fact radically different.
Badiou's entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics.
Laruelle carefully examines Badiou's Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe.
In turn, Laruelle explains the contrast with his own non-philosophy as a true democracy of thought that breaks philosophy's continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of 'non-standard' places where thinking can be found and practised.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
- Publication Date:03/01/2013
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- ISBN:9781441190765
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
- Publication Date:03/01/2013
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- ISBN:9781441190765
