{"product_id":"9781509509959","title":"A Biography of Ordinary Man On Authorities and Minorities","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA Biography of Ordinary Man\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOn Authorities and Minorities\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrançois Laruelle | Jessie Hock | Alex Dubilet\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a foundational text for our understanding of François Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Laruelle’s first systematic elaborations of his ethical and \"non-philosophical\" thought, this critical dialogue with some of the dominant voices of continental philosophy offers a rigorous science of individuals as minorities or as separated from the World, History, and Philosophy. Through novel theorizations of finitude and determination in the last instance, Laruelle develops a thought \"of the One\" as a \"minoritarian\" paradigm that resists those paradigms that foreground difference as the conceptual matrix for understanding the status of the minority. The critique of the \"unitary illusion\" of philosophy developed here stands at the foundation of Laruelle’s approach to \"uni-lateralizing\" the power of philosophy and the universals with which it has always thought, and thereby acts as a basis for his subsequent investigations of victims, mysticism, and Gnosticism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will appeal to students and scholars of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrançois Laruelle\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X (Nanterre).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 February 2018\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781509509959\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e260\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.4\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44380480700556,"sku":"9781509509959","price":65.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781509509959_66198177-78d8-4b09-ac4c-260f2f2c6c00.jpg?v=1780100804","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781509509959","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}