Laruelle’s “Reflections on the Meaning of Finitude in the Critique of Pure Reason”

Laruelle, Francois. “Reflections sur la sens de la finitude dans la Critique de la Raison Pure.” Revue International de Philosophie 35 (1981): 269-83.
Reflections on the Meaning of Finitude in the Critique of Pure Reason
François Laruelle
“Finitude” designates human knowledge’s positive nature of not creating its object which it nevertheless determines as object, of having to receive [...]

Some Brief Notes on Naturephilosophy

It’s truly a shame that Iain Hamilton Grant’s book Philosophies of Nature after Schelling is only available at the moment in a ridiculously priced hardcover (although a relatively better priced paperback is due out this fall). Undoubtedly the price of his main work has hindered his reception and made him the least known and commented [...]

Chapter 3 of Laruelle’s Introduction to Non-Marxism: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI)

Laruelle, Francois. Introduction au non-marxism. PUF: Paris, 2000. 39-55.
Chapter III: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance
First Elucidation of the Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI)
The determination-in-the-last-instance, invented by Marx-Engels for historical Materialism, never received from them a concept adequate enough to simultaneously produce all the theoretical and critical effects within its capacity. It has been understood in a far too empirical manner, applied on [...]

Non-Psychoanalysis pt. 1 – Drive and the Unconscious

The notion of Drive is one of the more heavily abused concepts of psychoanalysis while simultaneously one of it’s most extracted (save mirror stage induced alienation). Laruelle adopts Drive in relation to his vaunted force-of-thought and states that it is the “Other name for the force (of) thought as organon of the One and [...]

God-without-Being: definition by An und für sich

For another definition to Laruelle’s dictionary, check out An und für sich’s definition here. Keep it up, and thanks for sending me the missing pages in advance!
By the way, these definitions are an excellent practice in translation techniques and just fun in general, so I encourage everyone who might enjoy it to try their hand [...]

Seven Definitions on Man, Democracy, Mysticism, Ethics, Erotics, Aesthetics…

Man (Humans)
In their complete notion, men or humans are existing-subject-Strangers, determined-in-the-last-instance by the Real or the One as Ego-in-Ego. Ego-man, contrary to the philosophical Ego, is foreclosed to the subject, but the latter, insofar as it presupposes it, effectuates its uni-versality for the World.
As a philosophical concept, man is a humanoid simultaneously traced from the [...]

Five definitions related to Non-psychoanalysis

Auto-Position
The highest formal act of the philosophical Decision through which philosophical faith in the real allows the latter to be posited as the Real in an illusory way. It is consequently the real cause of the appearance of philosophy. The auto-position as real of the transcendental Unity proper to philosophy is that which prioritizes the [...]

Five definitions related to the force (of) thought

Non-dictionary
Collection of non-autopositional universes obtained by the reiteration of a universal pragmatics to a material of philosophical and regional terms; open list of non-conceptual symbols obtained beginning from a list of philosophical concepts.
This expression does not exist in philosophy but could here designate a negative or suspended moment in the economy of a dictionary, dialectic [...]

Speculative Realism and the Im/possibility of the Divine [UPDATED]

Aptly following upon the last post, we’ve been notified of a conference entitled “The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism” to be held in Rome in September. One of the panels (“Speculative Realism and the Im/possibility of the Divine”) will feature Quentin Meillassoux, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Dustin McWherter (Middlesex) presenting, with John Milbank [...]

Meillassoux’s Heresy? or The Chaos-God

[The following is a collection of excerpts from a paper I am working on about Meillassoux, Quantum Physics and the return of the anthropic in systems categorically opposed to the high status of the human.]
The theoretical passage, or perhaps more accurately the gaping chasm, between Quentin Meillassoux’s rigorously critical After Finitude to his divinological contribution to Collapse IV ”Spectral Dilemma,” [...]