Dictionary of Non-Philosophy - CLAS Users

Fran?ois Laruelle

Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Translated by Taylor Adkins

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Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Originally published as Fran?ois Laruelle, Dictionnaire de la Non-Philosophie. (Paris: Editions Kime, 1998.) All translations by Taylor Adkins unless otherwise noted. Compiled by Nick Srnicek and Ben Woodard. Cover Art by Tammy Lu. Free for noncommercial use and distribution with proper attribution. -----------------------------------

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Table of Contents

Auto-Position Being-in-One (Being-according-to-the-One) (Epistemic, Non-Philosophical) Break (Non-philosophical) Chora (Non-philosophical) Definition Democracy (Democracy-of-Strangers) Desire (non-desiring (of) self) Determination-in-the-last-instance (DLI) (Non-phenomenological or non-autopositional) Distance (Non-autopositional) Drive Dual Essence (of) science (the Science) Europanalysis Experimentation First Name Force (of) thought (existing-subject-Stranger) Formal Ontology (uni-versalized transcendental Logic) Generalization (generalization and uni-versalization) Generalized Fractality Given-without-givenness God-without-Being Hypothesis (philosophizing-by-hypothesis) Language-Universe Lived Experience (lived-without-life) Man (Humans) Material Ontology (Ch?ra, Uni-versalized Transcendental Aesthetic) Metascience Mixture Multiple Noema-Universe Non-Aesthetics Non-Dictionary

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Non-Epistemology

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Non-Erotics

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Non-Ethics

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Non-Intuitive (non-spatial and non-temporal)

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(Non-)One

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Non-Philosophy

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Non-Psychoanalysis

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Non-Rhetoric

47

Non-Sufficiency (of the Real or of the One)

48

Non-Technology

49

Occasion (occasional cause)

51

Ordinary Mysticism

52

Other (non-autopositional Other, non-thetic Transcendence)

53

Performativity (performed, performation, performational)

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Philosophical Decision

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Philosophy

57

Presentation (non-autopositional presentation)

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Primacy (primacy-without-priority)

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Priority (priority-without-primacy)

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Radical Immanence

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Real (One-in-One, Vision-in-One)

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Real Essence

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Reflection (reflection according to the One or non-autoreflexive)

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Relative Autonomy

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Reversibility (reciprocity, convertibility, exchange)

66

Rule (of the force (of) thought)

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Science-of-men

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Sense (sense (of) identity)

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Solitude (Solitary)

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Stranger (existing-subject-Stranger)

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Thought (continent of thought)

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Thought-science (unified theory of thought)

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Thought-world

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Time-without-temporality (radical past, transcendental future, present-world) 74

Transcendental (pure transcendental identity)

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Transcendental Axiomatic

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Transcendental Science Unconscious (non-psychoanalytic Unconscious) Universal Noesis Universal Pragmatics Universality (Uni-versality and Generality) Universion Vision-in-One (One, One-in-One, Real) World

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Preface

Non-philosophy is constituted under a double aspect: doctrinal, with the objective appearance of a philosophical type of thought; methodical and disciplinary, with a more theoretical than systematic will of extending its modes of argumentation and its vocabulary to all fundamental knowledges. For these two reasons, it appealed to a dictionary destined to form the pinnacle of theoretical acquisitions, to present the essentials of the technique, and to distinguish parallel, neighboring, or variant thoughts in the midst of which it has developed. In terms of dictionaries, this one has the benefits, insufficiencies, and illusions which are attached to this genre of works--nothing here is added from this order. On the other hand, it is important to emphasize that in virtue of the style proper to non-philosophy, this dictionary presents several particularities:

1. It does not retrace the internal, somewhat hesitant, non-philosophical history of the concepts: it is instead prospective and leads to the elaboration of articles in a theoretical point that often surpasses the Principles of Non-Philosophy themselves and is not content with merely specifying them. It is, so to speak, a dictionary for the non-philosophy to come.

2. After the definition of the term and before the explicative commentary, each article reserves a short paragraph destined not to compose the philosophical history of this term but to mark some of the most significant points of this history for us. They are simple indications without erudite pretention, but which each time attempt an interpretation of philosophy as "philosophical Decision."

3. The vocabulary of non-philosophy is that of philosophy principally, but each term is constantly reworked in its sense, its cut, and sometimes in its signifier. This language is taken from whichever point in the tradition--a toolbox, no doubt, but where the box is itself a tool, where every tool is inseparable from the box. Non-philosophy does not attach itself to a particular tradition, for it is a theory and a pragmatics of all actual or possible philosophy, past or to come. Hence the effects of overdetermination, a wide variety of languages required, and a fluidity of "language games," which is itself a term capable of entering into seemingly non-philosophical, i.e. philosophically contradictory, combinations. This is why the title that names each article is often completed by a parenthesis that specifies the literal form such as it is effectively utilized. Only the most theoretical and most universal vocabulary is called upon here.

Each of the three types of consideration--the non-philosophical definition, the philosophical meanings, the non-philosophical explication--is distinguished from the others simply by typography.

The articles have been proposed by the members of the "Non-philosophy" collectif, collectively discussed, and harmonized by F. Laruelle who has adjusted them on the actual theoretical level of non-philosophy, not without exceeding the latter, as we said. The collaborators are those who make up the "Non-philosophy collectif": T. Brachet, G. Kieffer, F. Laruelle, L. Leroy, D. Nicolet, A.-F. Schmid, S. Valdinoci.

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