Laruelle, Professor Francois (Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France): Anti-Badiou

In a new paperback edition, this compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle.Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou's Maoist 'ontology of the void' and Laruelle's own performative practice of 'non-philosophy' and explains why the two are in fact radically different. Badiou's entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics. Laruelle carefully examines Badiou's Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe.