Notes on François Laruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence: Introduction...
Adam has championed the posting of reading notes for the benefit of our own scholarship and the interest of AUFS readers. His notes on Agamben’s two most recent works, still not available in English...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Introduction: From the Aporias...
The first section is entitled, “How Difference became a philosophical decision”. Difference is understood here as a name for the constellation which assembles certain contemporaries in complex...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Chapter II: Syntax of Difference
“Difference as the Form of Order [forme d’ordre]” The One, as its essence is saved from the philosophical decision, is no Difference and has no need of it. But difference is a philosophical...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Chapter III: Reality of...
I should note that, somewhat on accident, I have not been noting differences in syntax that can be found in Laruelle’s early to late work. For instance in this text he speaks of the Vision-in-the-One...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Chapter IV: Hegel and Heidegger
[N.B. I’m not summarizing a great deal of the technical discussion of Hegel and Heidegger here. Largely because Laruelle assumes a lot of knowledge form his reader, some of which I have and some which...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Chapter V: Derrida
“Derrida between Nietzsche and Heidegger” This study of Derrida is placed into the analytic of Difference. This is in order, not to denounce the philosophical decision, but to understand it within the...
View ArticleLaruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence – Chapter VII: Theory of the...
This is the final chapter of Les Philosophies de la différence and by far the most important for future work by Laruelle. It ends in a kind of failure, which is interesting in itself, but a failure on...
View ArticleNotes Wrap-Up: Laruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence
Below you will find the individual links to the posts on Laruelle’s Les Philosophies de la différence. Introduction critique. I have also uploaded a version to print or download (in a number of...
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