Laruelle: A Stranger Thought
In: Key Contemporary Thinkers Ser.
Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Works by François Laruelle -- Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Philosophy? -- Part I: A Generic Introduction -- 1: Theory of the Philosophical Decision -- "Choose this day whom you will serve": non-philosophical indifference to philosophical faith -- Tracing the structure -- Can there be a philosophy in general? -- 2: The Style of Non-Philosophy -- No philosophy in the wild -- Thinking in-One and its effects -- Determination-in-the-last-instance -- Unilateral duality -- Force-(of)-thought -- Rules for writing non-philosophy -- First names -- Operators -- Part II: Unified Theories and the Waves of Non-Philosophy -- 3: Politics, or a Democracy (of) Thought -- The equivocation of politics and philosophy -- Laboring under the principle of sufficient philosophy -- A materialist reading of deconstruction -- A materialist politics and a theory of power and force -- Can thinking be democratic? -- 4: Science, or Philosophy's Other -- From the philosophy of science to the posture of science -- The division of labor on the factory floor of theory -- On non-epistemology and the description of science -- Real objects and objects of knowledge -- Homo sive natura: or, human science and human philosophy -- 5: Ethics, or Universalizing the Stranger-Subject -- Generic deracination -- Stranger victims: from the theory of the stranger to the general theory of victims -- The stranger before self and Other -- Thinking under the victim as generic name -- Identity and the universal: non-philosophy and critical race theory -- Conclusion: the good news of deracination -- 6: Fabulation, or Non-Philosophy as Philo-Fiction -- Art is the world without the world -- The art of thought -- Fiction is a matter of insurrection -- 7: Religion, or a Rigorous Heresy.