ANTI-BADIOU IBD

Sinopse

In a new paperback edition, this compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle.At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position of absolute immanence, both argue that philosophy is conditioned by science, and both command a pluralism of thought. Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou?s Maoist ?ontology of the void? and Laruelle?s own performative practice of ?non-philosophy? and explains why the two are in fact radically different. Badiou?s entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics. Laruelle carefully examines Badiou?s Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe. In turn, Laruelle explains the contrast with his own non-philosophy as a true democracy of thought that breaks philosophy?s continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of ?non-standard? places where thinking can be found and practised.