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Theory of Identities (Hardcover)
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Theory of Identities (Hardcover)
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Francois Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in
scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from
the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the
real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does
not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but
that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both
critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with
contemporary philosophy's reductive relation to science and its
attachment to notions of singularity, difference, and multiplicity,
which extends this crude approach. Laruelle's new theory of
science, its objects, and philosophy, introduces an original
vocabulary to elaborate the concepts of determination, fractality,
and artificial philosophy, among other ideas, grounded in an
understanding of the renewal of identity. Laruelle's work repairs
the rift between philosophical and scientific inquiry and
rehabilitates the concept of identity that continental philosophers
have widely criticized. His argument positions him clearly against
Deleuze, Badiou, the new materialists, and other thinkers who stray
too far from empirical approaches that might revitalize
philosophy's practical applications.
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