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Description for Neofinalism
Paperback. Translator(s): Ruyer, Alyosha. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 270 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science. Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to reflect on its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? What is the ... Read more
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science. Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to reflect on its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? What is the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692057
SKU
V9780816692057
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About Raymond Ruyer
Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987) was a professor of philosophy at the Universite de Nancy. He was the author of over twenty books in French, including Elements of Psychobiology, The Genesis of Living Forms, and Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. Alyosha Edlebi is the translator of Theory of Identities by Francois Laruelle and Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction ... Read more
Reviews for Neofinalism
Raymond Ruyer's work is remarkably prescient and provocative, providing a profound philosophy of life and evolution that deserves to be re-read today alongside contemporary vitalisms and new materialisms. This is a significant text in the history and philosophy of science, skillfully translated by Alyosha Edlebi. -Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University Raymond Ruyer is a rare, ... Read more