Theory of Identities

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54145-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

A new theory that reconciles scientific and philosophical ideas of the self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edlebi, Alyosha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition: Retrospection (2014)
Preface to the French Edition (1992)
Introduction: Science, Identity, Fractality
Part 1: The Essence of Science
1. Science: A Nonepistemological Description
2. Non-philosophy: A Scientific Reform of the Understanding
Part 2: Theory of Generalized Fractality
3. Of Determination-in-the-Last-Instance as Destruction of the Principle of Sufficient Determination
4. The Concepts of Generalized Fractality and Chaos
Part 3: Principles of an Artificial Philosophy
5. Unified Theory of Thought
6. The Concept of an Artificial Philosophy
7. The Fractal Modeling of Philosophy
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

François Laruelle is emeritus professor at the University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense (Paris X), and lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy (2011) and Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (Columbia, 2015), and is the director of L'Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale.

Alyosha Edlebi is a translator and Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. He has published articles on Deleuze, Laruelle, Meillassoux, and Simondon in Deleuze Studies, Theory Culture & Society, Qui Parle, and Parrhesia.