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'''François Laruelle''' (born: 22 August 1937) is a French (Non-)philosopher, founder of ''Non-philosophy'' (the "Non-" as in "Non-Euclidean Geometry") which is currently better known as ''"Non-standard Philosophy"'' (as in "Non-standard Analysis") or ''Generic Science''. Non-standard philosophy, while initially framed as a Science of Philosophy, is better explicated as a unified theory of a regional knowledge and philosophy.
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'''François Laruelle''' (born: 22 August 1937) is a French (Non-)philosopher, founder of ''Non-philosophy'' or ''First Science''  which is currently better known as ''"Non-standard Philosophy"'' or ''Generic Science''. Non-standard philosophy, while initially framed as a Science of Philosophy, is better now explicated as a unified theory of any regional knowledge whatsoever and philosophy.
  
 
Laruelle proposes a classification of his oeuvre into 5 Phases:
 
Laruelle proposes a classification of his oeuvre into 5 Phases:
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==Works==
 
==Works==
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In French unless noted otherwise. Adapted from bibliographies in ''La Philosophie non-standard de François Laruelle'' (ed. Anne-Françoise Schmid, Maryse Dennes & John Ó Maiolearca) and ''Alien Theory: The Decline of Materialism in the Name of Matter'' (auth. Ray Brassier).
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Adapted from bibliographies in ''La Philosophie non-standard de François Laruelle'' (ed. Anne-Françoise Schmid, Maryse Dennes & John Ó Maiolearca) and ''Alien Theory: The Decline of Materialism in the Name of Matter'' (auth. Ray Brassier).
  
 
=== Theses ===
 
=== Theses ===
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/translation-of-francois-laruelle-what-is-nietzschean-from-nietzsche-contre-heidegger-1977/ ''What is “Nietzschean”?''], pp. 67-83, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
 
** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/translation-of-francois-laruelle-what-is-nietzschean-from-nietzsche-contre-heidegger-1977/ ''What is “Nietzschean”?''], pp. 67-83, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
  
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* ''Au-delà du principe de pouvoir'', Paris: Payot, 1978. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/526e72e9307888926c000026 ARG] {{fr}}  
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* ''Au-delà du principe de pouvoir'' (initially titled ''Herméneutique générale''), Paris: Payot, 1978. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/526e72e9307888926c000026 ARG] {{fr}}  
 
** [https://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/translation-francois-laruelles-preface-to-beyond-the-principle-of-power/ ''Preface''], pp. 1-9, trans. Taylor Adkins. {{en}}
 
** [https://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/translation-francois-laruelles-preface-to-beyond-the-principle-of-power/ ''Preface''], pp. 1-9, trans. Taylor Adkins. {{en}}
 
** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-minoritarian-enunciation-from-au-dela-du-principe-de-pouvoir-1978/ ''The Minoritarian Enunciation''], pp. 27-39, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
 
** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-minoritarian-enunciation-from-au-dela-du-principe-de-pouvoir-1978/ ''The Minoritarian Enunciation''], pp. 27-39, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
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=== Philosophie IV ===
 
=== Philosophie IV ===
  
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* ''Le Christ futur: une leçon d'hérésie'', Paris: Exils, 2002, 183 pp.  
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* ''Le Christ futur: une leçon d'hérésie'', Paris: Exils, 2002, 183 pp. {{fr}}
 
** ''Future Christ: A Lesson in Heresy'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Continuum, 2010, 151 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2D279913B4A304D3DBA02793E959572E PDF]. {{en}}
 
** ''Future Christ: A Lesson in Heresy'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Continuum, 2010, 151 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2D279913B4A304D3DBA02793E959572E PDF]. {{en}}
  
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* with Philippe Petit, ''L'ultime honneur des intellectuels'', Paris: Textuel, 2003. Interview.
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* with Philippe Petit, ''L'ultime honneur des intellectuels'', Paris: Textuel, 2003. Interview. {{fr}}
 
** ''Intellectuals and Power: The Insurrection of the Victim'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Polity, 2015, 155 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/551b619a334fe0337caf174a ARG]. {{en}}
 
** ''Intellectuals and Power: The Insurrection of the Victim'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Polity, 2015, 155 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/551b619a334fe0337caf174a ARG]. {{en}}
  
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* ''La lutte et l'utopie à la fin des temps philosophiques'', Paris: Kimé, 2004, 204 pp.  
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* ''La lutte et l'utopie à la fin des temps philosophiques'', Paris: Kimé, 2004, 204 pp. {{fr}}
 
** ''Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy'', trans. Drew S. Burk and Anthony Paul Smith, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012. [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EA260B9CD4A53AA097F18AC740DE9B5E PDF] {{en}}
 
** ''Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy'', trans. Drew S. Burk and Anthony Paul Smith, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012. [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EA260B9CD4A53AA097F18AC740DE9B5E PDF] {{en}}
  
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* ''Mystique non-philosophique à l’usage des contemporains'', Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007.
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* ''Mystique non-philosophique à l’usage des contemporains'', Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/525343ad307888345800000e ARG] {{fr}}
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** ''Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today’s Use'', trans. Joshua Ramey and Edward Kazarian, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. {{en}}
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**[https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-world-as-mystic-world-in-mystique-non-philosophique-a-lusage-des-contemporains-2007/ ''The World as Mystic-World''], pp. 205-8, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/translation-of-francois-laruelle-disalienation-and-liberation-of-heresy-selections-from-mystique-non-philosophique-a-lusage-des-contemporains-2007/ ''Disalienation and Liberation of Heresy, Selections from the text''], pp. 229-35, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
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** ''Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today’s Use'', trans. Joshua Ramey and Edward Kazarian, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016 supposedly, status unknown. {{en}}
  
 
=== Philosophie V ===
 
=== Philosophie V ===
  
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* ''Introduction aux sciences génériques'', Paris: Petra, 2008
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* ''Introduction aux sciences génériques'', Paris: Petra, 2008. {{fr}}
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/translation-of-francois-laruelle-towards-philosophical-research-from-introduction-aux-sciences-generiques-2008/ ''Towards Philosophical Research''], pp. 19-37, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}
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** ''The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism'', Chapters 2 & 5, trans. Taylor Adkins, in ''The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism'' eds. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman)
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/translation-of-francois-laruelle-democracy-of-the-last-instance-within-the-sciences-general-equivalency-and-generic-idempotency-from-introduction-aux-sciences-generiques-2008/ ''Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic Idempotency''], pp. 97-104, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
  
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* ''Philosophie non-standard. Générique, quantique, philo-fiction'', Paris: Kimé, 2010.
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* ''Philosophie non-standard. Générique, quantique, philo-fiction'', Paris: Kimé, 2010. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/592170bd9ff37c4e19cb5ce5 ARG] {{fr}}
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** ''Non-standard Philosophy'', trans. Taylor Adkins and Rocco Gangle, 2022.
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/translation-of-francois-laruelle-what-is-to-be-done-with-philosophy-from-tetralogos-2018/ ''The Glossary of the Generic Quantum''], pp. 51-64, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-non-philosophical-or-super-philosophical-rebellion-of-music-in-tetralogos-2018/ ''Philo-Fiction''], pp. 91-4, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/translation-of-francois-laruelle-towards-a-treatise-of-speculative-music-from-tetralogos-2018/ ''From Fiction to Philo-Fiction and Science-Phiction''], selections, p.488-93, 497-9, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
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** ''Non-standard Philosophy'', trans. Taylor Adkins and Rocco Gangle, 2022. {{en}}
  
 
* ''Le Concept de non-photographie / The Concept of Non-Photography'', trans. Robin Mackay, Falmouth and New York: Urbanomic and Sequence Press, 2011, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3FC4BD9AFC1D71549FAADB9A392471F3 PDF]. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=4167] {{fr}}/{{en}}
 
* ''Le Concept de non-photographie / The Concept of Non-Photography'', trans. Robin Mackay, Falmouth and New York: Urbanomic and Sequence Press, 2011, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3FC4BD9AFC1D71549FAADB9A392471F3 PDF]. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=4167] {{fr}}/{{en}}
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** ''General Theory of Victims'', trans. Alex Dubilet and Jessie Hock, New York: Polity, 2015, xxi+151 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=28d6fe5addd9f96812f440f086610d57 PDF]. {{en}}
 
** ''General Theory of Victims'', trans. Alex Dubilet and Jessie Hock, New York: Polity, 2015, xxi+151 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=28d6fe5addd9f96812f440f086610d57 PDF]. {{en}}
  
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* ''Anti-Badiou: sur l'introduction du maoïsme dans la philosophie'', Paris: Kimé, 2011.
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* ''Anti-Badiou: sur l'introduction du maoïsme dans la philosophie'', Paris: Kimé, 2011. {{fr}}
 
** ''Anti-Badiou: On the Introduction of Maoism Into Philosophy'', trans. Robin MacKay, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8731 Log], [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0A8B75EF0A4B58416362BCEA250096ED PDF]. {{en}}
 
** ''Anti-Badiou: On the Introduction of Maoism Into Philosophy'', trans. Robin MacKay, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8731 Log], [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0A8B75EF0A4B58416362BCEA250096ED PDF]. {{en}}
  
 
* ''Photo-fiction, une esthétique non-standard / Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics'', trans. Drew S. Burke, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6835 Log]. {{fr}}/{{en}}  
 
* ''Photo-fiction, une esthétique non-standard / Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics'', trans. Drew S. Burke, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6835 Log]. {{fr}}/{{en}}  
  
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* ''Christo-fiction: les ruines d'Athènes et de Jérusalem'', Fayard, 2013, 368 pp. [http://www.fayard.fr/christo-fiction-9782213681412]
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* ''Christo-fiction: les ruines d'Athènes et de Jérusalem'', Fayard, 2013, 368 pp. {{fr}}
 
** ''Christo-Fiction: the Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem'', trans. Robin Mackay, Columbia University Press, 2015, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=47B0F56B474A2D0CA1B118A0371B5C09 PDF]. {{en}}
 
** ''Christo-Fiction: the Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem'', trans. Robin Mackay, Columbia University Press, 2015, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=47B0F56B474A2D0CA1B118A0371B5C09 PDF]. {{en}}
  
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* ''En dernière humanité. La nouvelle science écologique'', Paris: Cerf., 2015.
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* ''En dernière humanité. La nouvelle science écologique'', Paris: Cerf., 2015. {{fr}}
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** ''The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Bloomsbury, 2020. {{en}}
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** ''The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science'', trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Bloomsbury, 2020. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/6019b8fa9ff37c1ca12e81bf ARG] {{en}}
  
 
* ''Théologie clandestine pour les sans-religion : Une confession de foi du non-philosophe'', Paris: Kimé, 2019.
 
* ''Théologie clandestine pour les sans-religion : Une confession de foi du non-philosophe'', Paris: Kimé, 2019.
 
** ''Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith'', trans. Andrew Sackin-Poll, Bloomsbury, 2020. {{en}}
 
** ''Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith'', trans. Andrew Sackin-Poll, Bloomsbury, 2020. {{en}}
  
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* ''Tétralogos, un opéra de philosophies'' [Tetralogos: An Opera of Philosophies], Paris: Cerf., 2019.
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* ''Tétralogos, un opéra de philosophies'', Paris: Cerf., 2019. {{fr}}
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/translation-of-francois-laruelle-what-is-to-be-done-with-philosophy-from-tetralogos-2018/ ''What Is To Be Done With Philosophy?''], pp. 46-54, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-non-philosophical-or-super-philosophical-rebellion-of-music-in-tetralogos-2018/ ''The Non-Philosophical or Super-Philosophical Rebellion of Music''], pp. 559-62, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
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** [https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/translation-of-francois-laruelle-towards-a-treatise-of-speculative-music-from-tetralogos-2018/ ''Towards a Treatise of Speculative Music''], pp. 593-607, trans. Jeremy R Smith. {{en}}.
  
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=== Collections of Translated Articles by Laruelle ===
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===Translated Collections of Essays by Laruelle===
  
 
*''The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle'', ed. Alkon Gabriel & Gunjevic Boris, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2012
 
*''The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle'', ed. Alkon Gabriel & Gunjevic Boris, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2012
  
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*''From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought'', trans. & ed. Robin Mackay, New York: Sequence Press, 2013.
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*''From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought'', ed. Robin Mackay, New York: Sequence Press, 2013.
  
 
=== Edited by Laruelle ===
 
=== Edited by Laruelle ===

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François Laruelle (born: 22 August 1937) is a French (Non-)philosopher, founder of Non-philosophy or First Science which is currently better known as "Non-standard Philosophy" or Generic Science. Non-standard philosophy, while initially framed as a Science of Philosophy, is better now explicated as a unified theory of any regional knowledge whatsoever and philosophy.

Laruelle proposes a classification of his oeuvre into 5 Phases:

  • Philosophy I: Philosophy
  • Philosophy II-IV: Non-Philosophy or First Science
  • Philosophy V: Non-standard Philosophy or Generic Science

Works

Adapted from bibliographies in La Philosophie non-standard de François Laruelle (ed. Anne-Françoise Schmid, Maryse Dennes & John Ó Maiolearca) and Alien Theory: The Decline of Materialism in the Name of Matter (auth. Ray Brassier).

Theses

  • Les données immédiates de la manifestation. Essai sur Ravaisson, Doctorat de 3è cycle, sous la direction de Clémence Ramnoux, Paris X, 1969. (Revised and published as Phénomène et différence) (French)
  • Économie générale des effets d’être, Supervised by Paul Ricoeur, 1975. (French)
  • Au-delà de l’Idée, 2022. (Abridged and edited version of Économie générale des effets d’être) (French)

Philosophie I

Philosophie II

  • Une biographie de l’homme ordinaire. Des Autorités et des Minorités, Paris: Aubier, 1985. ARG (French)
    • A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities", trans. Jessie Hock & Alex Dubilet, Medford: Polity Press, 2018. ARG. (English)
  • Philosophies de la différence. Introduction critique, Paris: PUF, 1986, 249 pp.
    • Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy, trans. Rocco Gangle, Continuum, 2010, 224 pp, PDF. (English)
  • Philosophie et non-philosophie, Liège/Brussels: Mardaga, 1989. (French)
    • Philosophy and Non-Philosophy, trans. Taylor Adkins, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal Publishing, 2013, PDF. (English)
  • Théorie des identités: Fractalité généralisée et philosophie artificielle, Paris: PUF, 1992. (French)
    • Theory of Identities, trans. Alyosha Edlebi, New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, 270 pp, ARG. (English)

Philosophie III

  • Principes de la non-philosophie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996. (French)
    • Principles of Non-Philosophy, trans. Nicola Rubczak and Anthony Paul Smith, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Log (English)
  • L’hypothèse non-borgésienne. Essai sur le livre et la bibliothèque, Stuttgart: Jutta Legueil, 1997. (German)

Philosophie IV

  • Le Christ futur: une leçon d'hérésie, Paris: Exils, 2002, 183 pp. (French)
    • Future Christ: A Lesson in Heresy, trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Continuum, 2010, 151 pp, PDF. (English)
  • with Philippe Petit, L'ultime honneur des intellectuels, Paris: Textuel, 2003. Interview. (French)
    • Intellectuals and Power: The Insurrection of the Victim, trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Polity, 2015, 155 pp, ARG. (English)
  • La lutte et l'utopie à la fin des temps philosophiques, Paris: Kimé, 2004, 204 pp. (French)
    • Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy, trans. Drew S. Burk and Anthony Paul Smith, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012. PDF (English)

Philosophie V

  • Le Concept de non-photographie / The Concept of Non-Photography, trans. Robin Mackay, Falmouth and New York: Urbanomic and Sequence Press, 2011, PDF. [1] (French)/(English)
    • Koncept nefotografie, trans. Čestmír Pelikán, Fotograf 07, 2012, 82 pp. [2] (Czech)
  • Théorie générale des victimes, Paris: Fayard, 2011, 224 pp. [3]
    • General Theory of Victims, trans. Alex Dubilet and Jessie Hock, New York: Polity, 2015, xxi+151 pp, PDF. (English)
  • Anti-Badiou: sur l'introduction du maoïsme dans la philosophie, Paris: Kimé, 2011. (French)
    • Anti-Badiou: On the Introduction of Maoism Into Philosophy, trans. Robin MacKay, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, Log, PDF. (English)
  • Photo-fiction, une esthétique non-standard / Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, trans. Drew S. Burke, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, Log. (French)/(English)
  • Christo-fiction: les ruines d'Athènes et de Jérusalem, Fayard, 2013, 368 pp. (French)
    • Christo-Fiction: the Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem, trans. Robin Mackay, Columbia University Press, 2015, PDF. (English)
  • En dernière humanité. La nouvelle science écologique, Paris: Cerf., 2015. (French)
    • The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science, trans. Anthony Paul Smith, Bloomsbury, 2020. ARG (English)
  • Théologie clandestine pour les sans-religion : Une confession de foi du non-philosophe, Paris: Kimé, 2019.
    • Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith, trans. Andrew Sackin-Poll, Bloomsbury, 2020. (English)

Translated Collections of Essays by Laruelle

  • The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle, ed. Alkon Gabriel & Gunjevic Boris, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2012
  • From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought, ed. Robin Mackay, New York: Sequence Press, 2013.

Edited by Laruelle

  • Textes pour Emmanuel Levinas, Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1980.
  • La Décision philosophique, 9 issues, Paris: éditions Osiris, 1987-89.
  • Simondon, Gilbert, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques, Paris: Aubier, coll. « RES, l’invention philosophique », 1989.
  • Simondon, Gilbert, L’individuation psychique et collective, Paris Aubier, coll. « RES, l’invention philosophique », 1989.
  • La non-philosophie des contemporains, Paris: Kimé, 1995.
  • Discipline hérétique, Paris: Kimé, 1998.
  • (with Tony Brachet, Gilbert Kieffer, Laurent Leroy, Daniel Nicolet, Anne-Françoise Schmid, Serge Valdinoci), Dictionnaire de la non-philosophie, Paris: Kimé, 1998.
    • Dictionary of Non-Philosophy, trans. Taylor Adkins, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, PDF. (English)
  • Homo ex machina, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005, 274 pp, ARG.
  • Fabriques de l’insécurité, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007.

Links

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