Philosophy and non philosophy is widely considered the first fully explicit elaboration of non philosophy and one of its most important introductory texts. Philosophy can only really become for all or popular by becoming non philosophy p. The final lines of deleuze and guattaris what is philosophy. Laruelles decision to discuss deconstruction first is likely meant to emphasize that philosophy functions as the occasional cause of non. Laurelle presenting his nonphilsoophy in a short article by gynther11 in types presentations. In the dictionary of nonphilosophy, the french thinker francois laruelle does something unprecedented for philosophers. Philosophy and nonphilosophy university of minnesota press. As well as presenting the method and principles of nonphilosophy, it includes a history of the development of nonphilosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of nonphilosophical causality and new. The decision that laruelle is concerned with here is the dialectical splitting of the world in order to grasp the world philosophically. This problem is further complicated by the current lack of translated texts by francois laruelle, the founder of non philosophy, and the other members of the non philosophy collective. Nonphilosophy is liberating, democratising and a universal creative principle within thought because it unshackles us from the authoritarian and unitary mode of philosophy. Nonphilosophy relies upon a highly technical, abstract, and counterintuitive vocabulary, whose terms are almost always defined in relation to one another.
Non philosophy is liberating, democratising and a universal creative principle within thought because it unshackles us from the authoritarian and unitary mode of philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of nonphilosophy, it includes a history of the development of nonphilosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of nonphilosophical causality and new theories of the subject and. Laruelle argues that all forms of philosophy from ancient philosophy to analytic philosophy to deconstruction and so on are structured around a prior decision, and remain constitutively blind to this decision. The articles have been proposed by the members of the nonphilosophy collectif, collectively discussed, and harmonized by f. The first concise explanation of nonphilosophy and its relation to philosophy.