Introduction to Non-Marxism

218 Pages·2015·2.49 MB·English

by  François Laruelle

Fran�ois Laruelle
INTRODUCTION TO NON-MARXISM
translated by Anthony Paul Smith
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Marxism and N on-Marxism 1
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The Non-Marxist Hypothesis 1
Getting into the Program 4
Chapter 1: Theory of the Failure of Marxism 11
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The Failure of the Explanations of Failure:
Desertion and Resentment 11
Universal Conjuncture: "The End of Metaphysics" or
"The Failure of Marxism?" 15
From the Aspects of the Failure to their
Cause-of-the-Last-Instance 19
Chapter 2: Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy 23
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Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible 23
Unified Theory of Marxism 25
Marxism, a Miscarriage, a Material,
a Symptom, a Limited Model 28
Marxism's Philosophical Side 31
Philosophical Normalization 33
Non-Marxist Practice of Philosophy 34
Discovering the Identity of Marxism 36
Chapter 3: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance 41
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First Elucidation of
Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI) 41
Misadventures of Immanence
(from Spinoza to Michel Henry) 43
Amphibologies of Materialism 46
Insufficiency of Marxist
Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI) 48
Mechanism of DLI:
The Cloning of the Superstructure 53
The Identically Scientific
and Philosophical Theory of DLI 58
Chapter 4: The Style of Non-Marxism 63
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The Theoretical and Practical Style of Uni-lateral Duality:
The Uni-lateral as the Real Kernel of Contradiction 63
Uni-lateral Repetition of Marxism 67
The Style of the Uni-versa!:
Marxism, Specification of Non-Marxism 69
Unified Theory: Marx and Freud As Symptoms 70
Deviations and Marxist "Taste":
In What Sense Are All Marxisms "Imaginary?" 73
Theory of ''Aspects"-Unilateral Objects and
Partial Objects-Other-without-Otherness 75
The Thousand Sources of Non-Marxism 80
Transcendental Axiomatization of Marxism:
Theses and Categories, Axioms and First Terms 84
From the Problematic to the Unified Theory 88
From Epistemological Break to Unified Theory 91
Chapter 5: Knowledge, Practice, Materialism 95
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From the Cognitive to the Cognostic 95
Non-Marxism and Transcendental Science 98
From Adequacy-of-Truth to the True-without-Truth 100
Practice as Uni-laterality 103
Marxism and Non-Marxism on Practice 108
The Fusion-in-Practice of Theory and the Pragmatic 109
Materialism's Lost Axiomatic 111
Ideal Platonic Genesis of Materialism 114
Non-Platonism: Limited and Uni-versa! 117
Three Models (Mechanism, Dialectic, Structuralism) 119
Chapter 6: Subjects-in-Struggle 121
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Unifed Theory of the Subject, Practice, and Struggle 121
Labor Power and Practical Force 124
Subject-without-Process: Subject-in-Struggle 128
Fusion of the Theoretical and Pragmatic
within the Practical Subject 133
Classes Struggling, Class Struggle, Uni-Class Struggle 135
The Subject-in-Struggle and the Given Struggle,
Identical-in-the-Last-Instance 137
The Non-Proletarian:
The Non-Consistency of Communism 138
In Order to Introduce Democracy into Thought 141
Production that Is Non-Production-(of)-ltself 149
From the Man without Qualities to the Man-without-Essence:
Against Anthropological Consistency 153
From the Transindividual to the Indivi-dual 156
Chapter 7: The Thought-World:
Capitalism and Philosophy 159
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The Uni(-)versalization of Marxist Categories 159
Uni(-)Versal Capitalism as Principle
of Sufficient Economy 162
The Fusion of Capitalism and Philosophy 166
Chapter 8: Toward a Clandestine Marxism:
A Summary of Non-Marxism 169
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From the Lost Theory to the Impossible Theory 171
How to lmpossiblize Marxism 173
A "Non-Euclidean" Marxism 175
Non-Marxist Formalism as Impossible
Theory in-the-Last-Instance 179
Non-Marxism as Generic Force of Theory 180
Formalism as a Democratic Extension of Struggles 183
The Categories of the Subject-in-Struggle 188
Last Instance and Messianity 191