François Laruelle

Le concept de non-photographie : edition bilingue

The Concept of Non-Photography

Essays extending the research in The concept of non-photography, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011.

Photo-Fiction, une esthétique non-standard

Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics

Jessie Hock

Alex Dubilet

On Authorities and Minorities

Biography of Ordinary Man

experiments in non-standard thought

From decision to heresy

Philosophy and non-philosophy

a critical introduction to non-philosophy

Philosophies of difference

Eugene Thacker

Daniel Colucciello Barber

Nicola Masciandaro

Alexander Galloway

Aaron Metté

Dark Nights of the Universe

François Laruelle's lifelong project of "nonphilosophy," or "nonstandard philosophy," thinks past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations between religion, science, politics, and art. In Christo-Fiction Laruelle targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and the radical potential of Christ, whose "crossing" disrupts their circular discourse. Laruelle's Christ is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles, or the Catholic Church. He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans, and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. Explicitly inserting quantum science into religion, Laruelle recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment, and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, Christo-Fiction is a daring, heretical experiment that ties religion to the human experience and the lived world.

The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem

Christo-Fiction

science des hommes, démocratie, non-psychanalyse

Théorie des étrangers

La lutte et l'utopie à la fin des temps philosophiques

This book is a foundational text for our understanding of François Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines. One of Laruelle’s first systematic elaborations of his ethical and "non-philosophical" thought, this critical dialogue with some of the dominant voices of continental philosophy offers a rigorous science of individuals as minorities or as separated from the World, History, and Philosophy. Through novel theorizations of finitude and determination in the last instance, Laruelle develops a thought "of the One" as a "minoritarian" paradigm that resists those paradigms that foreground difference as the conceptual matrix for understanding the status of the minority. The critique of the "unitary illusion" of philosophy developed here stands at the foundation of Laruelle’s approach to "uni-lateralizing" the power of philosophy and the universals with which it has always thought, and thereby acts as a basis for his subsequent investigations of victims, mysticism, and Gnosticism. This book will appeal to students and scholars of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, and cultural theory.

A Biography of Ordinary Man

François Laruelle

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