Description
| Product ID: | 9781350009080 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Anti-Badiou |
| Subtitle: | The Introduction of Maoism into Philosophy |
| Authors: | Author: Professor Francois Laruelle |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy, from c 1900 - |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In a new paperback edition, 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. In a new paperback edition, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-23 |
