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Anthony P. Smith - Laruelle: A Stranger Thought (Key Contemporary Thinkers) - 9780745671239 - V9780745671239
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Laruelle: A Stranger Thought (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

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Description for Laruelle: A Stranger Thought (Key Contemporary Thinkers) Paperback. Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle's work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

François Laruelle�s �non-philosophy� or �non-standard philosophy� represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle�s work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. In this book Anthony Paul Smith dispels this misunderstanding and shows how Laruelle�s critique of philosophy is guided by the positive aim of understanding philosophy�s structure so that it can be creatively recast with other discourses and domains of human knowledge, from politics and ethics to science and religion.

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This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in contemporary French philosophy, and anyone who wants to discover more about one of its foremost practitioners.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Series
Key Contemporary Thinkers
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745671239
SKU
V9780745671239
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Ref
99-50

About Anthony P. Smith
Anthony Paul Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia, and a Research Fellow at DePaul University's Institute for Nature and Culture, Chicago.

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