Man outside-the-field and his radically immanent essence that is non-positional (of) itself. The unitary field and its two parameters. Finite individuals are absolutely invisible to unitary philosophy, though thinkable. * Thinking outside of all representation or ob-jectivation. * 4) The Scientific and Positive Meaning of Transcendental Naivete * The characteristics of the science of men and what distinguishes it from philosophy: 1) naive and not reflexive 2) real or absolute and not hypothetical 3) essentially theoretical and not practical or technical 4) descriptive and not constructive 5) human rather than anthropological. * 3) From Philosophy to Theory: the Science of Ordinary Man The finite subject, without universal or authoritarian predicates. Man as finite transcendental experience of the One. Man is really distinct from the World and from the All. * Man is not visible within the horizon of Greek ontological presuppositions. * 2) Man as Finite or Ordinary Individual The essence of man is ?theoretical,? not anthropo-logical. Critique of difference and of anthropo-logical parallelism. Heterogeneous sciences, not specific, not theoretically justified, and devoid of humanity. The Sciences of Man are not sciences and man is not their object. * 1) From the Sciences of Man to the Science of Men * Introduction: A Rigorous Science of Man This book will appeal to students and scholars of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, and cultural theory. 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. 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. One 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. This 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.
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