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Laruelle develops the concepts and method of a more democratic form of thought where neither science nor philosophy are subjected to one another, but brought together in a more productive theoretical and practical relationship. While the potential importance of this project is clear, Laruelle remains famously difficult. Anthony Paul Smith provides an introduction and guide to the text that situates it amongst the figures and concepts Laruelle engaged with, creating a foothold for understanding and, more importantly, potential use of the project of non-philosophy

What is to be done with philosophy? -- A generic introduction -- Theory of the philosophical decision -- The style of non-philosophy -- Unified theories and the waves of non-philosophy -- Politics, or a democracy (of) thought -- Science, or philosophy¿s other -- Ethics, or universalizing the stranger-subject -- Aesthetics, or non-philosophy as philo-fiction -- Religion, or a rigorous heresy -- The future of non-philosophy

"In the course of more than twenty works François Laruelle has developed one of the most singular and unique ways of thinking within contemporary philosophy. This volume develops the style of his late work, which has sought to combine the idioms of diverse areas (from the language of quantum mechanics to theology, messianism and Gnosticism) to create non-standard philosophical fictions which further articulate his thinking of radical immanence in relation to wide-ranging themes and concerns. The focus here is a reassessment of his attempt to rethink what it means to be human. Much of that work has taken place through an engagement with science, politics and religion, but now we see Laruelle confronting the challenge of ecology for his kind of humanism (which he would call a 'non-humanism', meaning a non-standard humanism). This challenge is one of thinking of the ethical demands of other entities within a general ecology. Namely the lives of plants and other vegetation alongside that of animals. Dealing with the intersections between science and philosophy in current French thought, this book is of particular interest to those concerned with the philosophical innovation and renewal of ecological thought that have influenced ecological theory. The first English translation of a key work from this highly original experimental philosopher, it will surely help cement his place in the firmament of avant-garde French thinkers, from Derrida and Deleuze to Badiou."--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction to Non-Marxism -- Introduction: Marxism and Non-Marxism -- The Non-Marxist Hypothesis -- Getting into the Program -- Chapter 1: Theory of the Failure of Marxism -- The Failure of the Explanations of Failure: Desertion and Resentment -- Universal Conjuncture: "The End of Metaphysics" or "The Failure of Marxism?" -- From the Apsects of the Failure to their Cause-of-the-Last-Instance -- Chapter 2: Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy -- Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible -- Unified Theory of Marxism -- Marxism, a Miscarriage, a Material, a Symptom, a Limited Model -- Marxism's Philosophical Side -- Philosophical Normalization -- Non-Marxist Practice of Philosophy -- Discovering the Identity of Marxism -- Chapter 3: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance -- First Elucidation of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI) -- Misadventures of Immanence (from Spinoza to Michel Henry) -- Amphibologies of Materialism -- Insufficiency of Marxist Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI) -- Mechanism of DLI: The Cloning of the Superstructure -- The Identically Scientific and Philosophical Theory of DLI -- Chapter 4: The Style of Non-Marxism -- The Theoretical and Practical Style of Uni-lateral Duality: The Uni-lateral as the Real Kernel of Contradiction -- Uni-lateral Repetition of Marxism -- The Style of the Uni-versal: Marxism, Specification of Non-Marxism -- Unified Theory: Marx and Freud As Symptoms -- Deviations and Marxist "Taste": In What Sense Are All Marxisms "Imaginary?" -- Theory of "Aspects" -- Unilateral Objects and Partial Objects -- Other-without-Otherness -- The Thousand Sources of Non-Marxism -- Transcendental Axiomatization of Marxism: Theses and Categories, Axioms and First Terms -- From the Problematic to the Unified Theory.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Non-Philosophical Inversion: Laruelle's Knowledge Without Domination -- 1. Thinking From the One: Science and the Ancient Philosophical Figure of the One -- 2. Laruelle Facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire -- 3. Laruelle and Ordinary -- 4. The Justice of Non-Philosophy -- 5. Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction -- 6. The Science-Thought of Laruelle and its Effects on Epistemology -- 7. 1 + 1 = 1: The Non-Consistency of Non- Philosophical Practice (Photo: Quantum: Fractal) -- 8. Transcendental Arguments, Axiomatic Truth, and the Difficulty of Overcoming Idealism -- 9. Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist -- 10. Theories of the Immanent Rebellion: Non-Marxism and Non-Christianity -- 11. Is Thinking Democratic? Or, How to Introduce Theory into Democracy -- 12. Non-Philosophy, Weapon of Last Defence: An Interview with François Laruelle -- Notes on Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 'Subjectivity Without the Subject': Thinking Beyond the Subject with / through Spinoza -- 2. Spinoza's Non-Humanist Humanism -- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology -- 4. Spinoza's Architectural Passages and Geometric Comportments -- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism -- Interlude LANCE BREWER, 'SHADOWS' -- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today -- 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology -- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism -- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature -- 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza -- Notes on Contributors -- Index