Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy

Paperback Published on: 01/11/2012
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN: 9781937561055
  • Number of pages: 220
  • Dimensions: 153 x 208 x 19 mm
  • Weight: 392g
  • Languages: English