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Theory of Identities.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231168946
  • 9780231541459
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.82 23
LOC classification:
  • B77 .L3713 2016
  • B77 .L3713 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition: Retrospection (2014) -- Preface to the French Edition (1992) -- Introduction: Science, Identity, Fractality -- Part I. The Essence of Science -- 1. Science: A Nonepistemological Description -- 2. Non-philosophy: A Scientific Reform of the Understanding -- Part II. Theory of Generalized Fractality -- 3. Of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance as Destruction of the Principle of Sufficient Determination -- 4. The Concepts of Generalized Fractality and Chaos -- Part III. Principles of an Artificial Philosophy -- 5. Unified Theory of Thought -- 6. The Concept of an Artificial Philosophy -- 7. The Fractal Modeling of Philosophy -- Notes -- Index
Summary: François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with contemporary philosophy's reductive relation to science and its attachment to notions of singularity, difference, and multiplicity, which extends this crude approach. Laruelle's new theory of science, its objects, and philosophy, introduces an original vocabulary to elaborate the concepts of determination, fractality, and artificial philosophy, among other ideas, grounded in an understanding of the renewal of identity. Laruelle's work repairs the rift between philosophical and scientific inquiry and rehabilitates the concept of identity that continental philosophers have widely criticized. His argument positions him clearly against Deleuze, Badiou, the new materialists, and other thinkers who stray too far from empirical approaches that might revitalize philosophy's practical applications.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition: Retrospection (2014) -- Preface to the French Edition (1992) -- Introduction: Science, Identity, Fractality -- Part I. The Essence of Science -- 1. Science: A Nonepistemological Description -- 2. Non-philosophy: A Scientific Reform of the Understanding -- Part II. Theory of Generalized Fractality -- 3. Of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance as Destruction of the Principle of Sufficient Determination -- 4. The Concepts of Generalized Fractality and Chaos -- Part III. Principles of an Artificial Philosophy -- 5. Unified Theory of Thought -- 6. The Concept of an Artificial Philosophy -- 7. The Fractal Modeling of Philosophy -- Notes -- Index

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François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with contemporary philosophy's reductive relation to science and its attachment to notions of singularity, difference, and multiplicity, which extends this crude approach. Laruelle's new theory of science, its objects, and philosophy, introduces an original vocabulary to elaborate the concepts of determination, fractality, and artificial philosophy, among other ideas, grounded in an understanding of the renewal of identity. Laruelle's work repairs the rift between philosophical and scientific inquiry and rehabilitates the concept of identity that continental philosophers have widely criticized. His argument positions him clearly against Deleuze, Badiou, the new materialists, and other thinkers who stray too far from empirical approaches that might revitalize philosophy's practical applications.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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