{"product_id":"all-thoughts-are-equal-laruelle-and-nonhuman-philosophy-paperback-softback-9780816697359","title":"All Thoughts Are Equal; Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816697359","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAll Thoughts Are Equal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLaruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Ó Maoilearca (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816697359\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 2\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.498 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Thoughts Are Equal\u003c\/i\u003e is an original act and development of non-philosophical thinking. John \u0026amp;Oacute; Maoilearca gives us a virtuoso tour of Laruellian thought and offers a highly original and significant mutation of non-philosophy in his own right.\"-Ian James, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Thoughts Are Equal \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and splendid elaboration of the non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle, and one that will no doubt be indispensable.\"-\u003ci\u003eFilm-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Thoughts Are Equal\u003c\/i\u003e is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher FranÇois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruelle, standard forms of philosophy continue to dominate our models of what counts as exemplary thought and knowledge. By contrast, what Laruelle calls his “non-standard” approach attempts to bring democracy into thought, because all forms of thinking-including the nonhuman-are equal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn \u0026amp;Oacute; Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewed with non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes. He does so by refusing to explain Laruelle through orthodox philosophy, opting instead to follow the structure of a film (Lars von Trier’s documentary \u003ci\u003eThe Five Obstructions\u003c\/i\u003e) as an example of the non-standard method. Von Trier’s film is a meditation on the creative limits set by film, both technologically and aesthetically, and how these limits can push our experience of film-and of ourselves-beyond what is normally deemed “the perfect human.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Thoughts Are Equal \u003c\/i\u003eadopts film’s constraints in its own experiment by showing how Laruelle’s radically new style of philosophy is best presented through our most nonhuman form of thought-that found in cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Laruelle and the Nonhuman in Five Remakes\u003cbr\u003eThe Authority and Victimization of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e‘It is Necessary to Abandon the Philosophical Usage of Thought’: From Position to Representation\u003cbr\u003ePerformative Inconsistency\u003cbr\u003eMaterial Thinking \u003cbr\u003eThe Structure of Decision and Postural Mutation\u003cbr\u003eHypotheses of Real Science \u003cbr\u003eAnthropomorphism and Extended Thinking\u003cbr\u003eA Film of Philosophy: The Five Obstructions\u003cbr\u003eThe Horror of the Nonhuman\u003cbr\u003eOutline of a Structure\u003ci\u003e, with Tangents\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1. Philosophy, the Path of Most Resistance\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Box of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy’s Dystopias: The Victims of Thought \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Non-Philosophical Tangent: The Most Miserable Place in the World\u003cbr\u003eTu Quoque\u003c\/i\u003e or, You Too Are One of Us \u003cbr\u003eDeleuze and Badiou: Two Perfect Philosophers\u003cbr\u003eThe New Realism\u003cbr\u003eLaruelle is No Kant: From Determination-in-the-Last-Instance to the Mutational Transcendental\u003cbr\u003eResidual Objects and Invisible Victims: The Philosophical Essence of Cinnabar\u003cbr\u003e2. Paraconsistent Fictions and Discontinuous Logic\u003cbr\u003eLogic, Optics, Cuts\u003cbr\u003ePerformative Realism: On Derrida\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Photographic Tangent: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The 12 Frames Obstruction)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLogical Contradiction and Real Identity: Inside Meinong’s Jungle\u003cbr\u003eFrom Contradiction to Paraconsistency: Trivial Explosions\u003cbr\u003eThe Cinema of Discontinuous Thought: A Non-Hegelian Movie\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMise-en-fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePhilosophical Boxes and Impossible Boxes\u003cbr\u003e3. How to Act Like a Non-Philosopher\u003cbr\u003eRemaking the One\u003cbr\u003eFive Takes on Decision\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Behavioral Tangent: Being True to the Idea (A Film du Look)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePosture, Photography, and the Game of Positions\u003cbr\u003eRadical Behavior \u003cbr\u003eThree Distances: Withdrawal, Hallucination, Orientation\u003cbr\u003eMiming Philosophy: A Game of Postures \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrux Scenica\u003c\/i\u003e: Philosophy’s First Position (Versus the Human Posture)\u003cbr\u003e4. The Perfect Nonhuman: Philosomorphism and the Animal Rendering of Thought\u003cbr\u003eEvery Anti-Communist is a Dog: Indefining the Human\u003cbr\u003eIndividuals, Strangers, Posthumans\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Idiotic Tangent: Animal Obstruction (The Stupidity of Animation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eProtecting the Human \u003cbr\u003ePet Theories: On Philosomorphism\u003cbr\u003eRadical Equality\u003cbr\u003ePoliticized Animals: From the Man-in-Person to the Animal-in-Person\u003cbr\u003eCinematic Animals: The Horror \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e Nonhumans\u003cbr\u003eTranscendental Idiocy, Or, the Insufficient Animal\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy of Vision\u003cbr\u003eFrom Cosmological Perspectivism to Radical Anthropomorphism\u003cbr\u003eTowards an Animal Philosophy: From Sloterdijk to Flusser\u003cbr\u003e5. Performing the Imperfect Human\u003cbr\u003eA Performance Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Performative Tangent: This is How the Perfect Human Falls (The Radically Passive Obstruction)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Spectra of Performance: From Nonart to Not-Acting\u003cbr\u003eThe Specter of Performance\u003cbr\u003eHopeful Monsters: Evaluating Performance\u003cbr\u003eThinking Personally:\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNon-Philosophia ad Hominos\u003cbr\u003eReflection as Mutation: Unconditional Reflexes (A Final Tangent)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eConclusion. Making a Monster of Laruelle: On Actualism and Anthropomorphism\u003cbr\u003eCoda. Paradise Now, Or, The Brightest Thing in the World: On Nonhuman Utopia\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735593414936,"sku":"9780816697359","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/all-thoughts-are-equal-laruelle-and-nonhuman-philosophy-paperback-softback-9780816697359","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}