Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 26 No. 1, 2011.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
According to the Identity of the Real: The Non-Philosophical Thought of Immanence
Gabriel Alkon
; City University of New York, Baruch College, Department of English, New York, USA
Boris Gunjević
; 2Theological Faculty “Matija Vlačić Ilirik”, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
Are the things of this world given to thought? Are things really meant to be known, to be taken as the objective manifestations of a transcendental conditioning power? The Western philosophical tradition, according to Francois Laruelle, presupposes just this transcendental constitution of the real – a presupposition that exalts philosophy itself as the designated recipient of the transcendental gift. In our article on Laruelle’s trenchant project we try to show how this presupposition controls even the ostensibly radical critiques of the philosophical tradition that have proliferated in the postmodern aftermath of Nietzsche and Heidegger. An effective critique of philosophy must be non-philosophical. It must, according to Laruelle, suspend the presupposition that otherness is given to be known, that thought has a fundamentally differential structure. Non-philosophy begins not with difference, not with subject and object, but with the positing of the One. From this axiomatic starting point, non-philosophy takes as its material philosophy, rethought according to the One. The non-philosophy project does not, like so much postmodern philosophy, herald the end of philosophy. It takes philosophy as an occasion to raise the question of another kind of thought – one that, instead of differentially relating to the world that it presupposes, asserts that it is ultimately, in the flesh, at One with what it can never know.
Ključne riječi
non-philosophy; immanence; One; difference; Real
Hrčak ID:
72501
URI
Datum izdavanja:
23.8.2011.
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