Anti-badiou, paperback/francois laruelle

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, Fran¿ois 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 Badious Maoist ontology of the void and Laruelles own performative practice of non-philosophy and explains why the two are in fact radically different.

Badious entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics.

Laruelle carefully examines Badious 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 philosophys continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of non-standard places where thinking can be found and practised.