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.
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