“Theorems on the Good News” — François Laruelle
“In being sufficient, philosophy acts on man through a kind of causality resembling enchantment; logos imprisons man within a magic circle, and it closes around him a second time just as he strives to exit the circle… As long as man lives under the Decision or the Principle of Sufficient Philosophy, he lives also within an impotence of thought and within an infinite culpability.”
In this brief set of theorems, contemporary French intellectual François Laruelle begins the work of elaborating what he has come to call “non-philosophy”. Interrogating the relation between “man” and “philosophy”, these theorems articulate Laruelle’s claim that all forms of philosophy are dependent upon a prior decision, which philosophy itself is constituetively ignorant of—a dialectical splitting of the world that makes grasping the world philosophically possible. These theorems act as an attempt at exposing this decisional structure non-philosophically.
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