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In our new episode of TELOScast, Marcia Pally and Gabriel Alkon discuss Telos Press Publishing’s latest release, The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle, edited by Gabriel Alkon and Boris Gunjevic. The Non-Philosophy Project is now available for purchase here. Listen to the podcast below.
In our new episode of TELOScast, Marcia Pally and Boris Gunjevic discuss Telos Press Publishing’s latest release, The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle, edited by Gabriel Alkon and Boris Gunjevic. The Non-Philosophy Project is now available for purchase here. Listen to the podcast below.
In our first episode of TELOScast, Telos Press Publishing is proud to announce our latest release, The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle, edited by Gabriel Alkon and Boris Gunjevic. Publisher Maria Piccone hosts the editors as they discuss the book and Laruelle’s unique views. The Non-Philosophy Project is now available for purchase here. Listen to the podcast below.
Telos Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle, edited by Gabriel Alkon and Boris Gunjevic. Pre-order your copy in our store, and it will be shipped as soon as it is available. Telos Press maintains an active, year-round, and global internship program, a valuable learning experience in which undergraduate and graduate students assist with the publication and marketing of the journal Telos as well as Telos Press books. We are looking for assistance with social media efforts and outreach (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) as well as public relations and marketing research. Our main office is located in the heart of New York City’s East Village. The Midwest Book Review recommends A Journal of No Illusions: Purchase your copy of A Journal of No Illusions here and save 20% off the list price. |
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Are the things of this world given to thought? Are things really meant to be known, to be taken as the objective manifestations of a transcendental conditioning power? The Western philosophical tradition, according to François Laruelle, presupposes just this transcendental constitution of the real—a presupposition that exalts philosophy itself as the designated recipient of the transcendental gift. Philosophy knows what things really are because things—all things—are given to philosophy to be known. Laruelle’s trenchant essays show how this presupposition controls even the ostensibly radical critiques of the philosophical tradition that have proliferated in the postmodern aftermath of Nietzsche and Heidegger. For these critiques persist in assuming that the disruptive other is in some way given to their own discourse—which shows itself thereby to be still philosophical. An effective critique of philosophy must be non-philosophical. It must, according to Laruelle, suspend the presupposition that otherness is given to be known, that thought has a fundamentally differential structure. Non-philosophy begins not with difference, not with subject and object, but with the positing of the One. From this axiomatic starting point, non-philosophy takes as its material philosophy, rethought according to the One. The non-philosophy project does not, like so much postmodern philosophy, herald the end of philosophy. It takes philosophy as an occasion to raise the question of another kind of thought—one that, instead of differentially relating to the world that it presupposes, asserts that it is ultimately, in the flesh, at One with what it can never know. 
Anything of worth is worthy of criticism. A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory traces the history behind the journal Telos, which contained many writings discussing the new direction of the American left, with much discussion of European social theory and its future and applications to our world. Paul Piccone created the journal and never expected it to grow to the place it has, and Timothy W. Luke and Ben Agger present an intriguing literary history behind the publication and where it has came from. A Journal of No Illusions is a fine pick for any journalistic studies collection discussing historic publications. 
