From Decision to Heresy

From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought François Laruelle   Urbanomic/SequenceDecember 2012Edited by Robin MackayTranslated by Taylor Adkins, Ray Brassier, Christopher Eby and Anthony Paul SmithPaperback 115x175mmISBN 978-0-9832169-0-2 The question ‘what is non-philosophy?’ must be replaced by the question about what it can and cannot do. To ask what it can do is already to acknowledge that its capacities are not unlimited. This question is partly Spinozist: no-one knows what a body can do. It is partly Kantian: circumscribe philosophy’s illusory power, the power of reason or the faculties, and do not extend its sufficiency by way of another philosophy. It is also partly Marxist: how much of philosophy can be transformed through practice, how much of it can be withdrawn from its ‘ideological’ use? And finally, it is also partly Wittgensteinian: how can one limit philosophical language through its proper use? But these apparent philosophical proximities and family r