Originally published in 1995, this book constitutes a turning point in the development of what François Laruelle calls non-philosophy, towards its democratic and emancipatory vision. In this work, Laruelle utilises his non-philosophical theory to develop unified theoretical analyses into philosophys relationship with the humanities, politics and psychoanalysis.
Centred on the figure of the Stranger, he argues for a democratic reformation of thought governed by human multitudes. The new field of thought is opened by this Universal Humanity, identified with three different pathways: a science of people and non-humanism, democracy and non-politics, and non-psychoanalysis as the development of a Universal Unconscious.
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At last, this key text by Laruelle has been made available to English language readers in this fine translation by Jeremy R. Smith. We, the strangers of non-philosophy, will be forever in his debt. -- Jonathan Fardy, Idaho State University A cornerstone for Laruelles non-standard philosophy, Theory of Strangers marks crucial interventions in current psychoanalysis, ethics, politics, and the human sciences. Jeremy R. Smiths precise and knowledgeable translation brings Laruelles challenging and microscopically inventive text alive in English, giving new breath and spark to settled theory. -- Rocco Gangle, Endicott College
Welcoming the Stranger that One is: Translator's Introduction
Programme: Which One is the Stranger? A New Idea
Problematic: On Man as a Scientific Continent
Homo Sive Scientia
Unitary Theory and Unified Theory of Philosophy and the Human Sciences
On Philosophy as the Superior Form of Bio-Technology
On the Indivisibility of Man as a Theoretical Object
On Man as a Cause For Science
From Man as the Cause for Science to the Science of People
Science and Meta-Science
Chapter I: Principles of a Science of People as the Unified Theory of
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
The Principle of a Future Science That Would Present Itself as Human
The Duality of the Givennesses of Man: the Human-Given-without-Givenness and
Meta-Human Givenness
The Non-Donative Ego or Vision-in-Man
The Givenness of Meta-Human Knowledges and its Relative Autonomy
The Object of Science: Universal Humanity or Strangers
The Ego, The Stranger, Science
On the Science of People as the 'Unified Theory' of Man
The cogito sum of Man as Stranger
The Stranger as the Subject of the Science of People and Democracy
Against Dogmatism: A 'Non-Copernican' and 'Non-Rousseauist' Mutation
On the Good Use of the Human Sciences: Meta-Language, Material, and Model
From 'The Anthropological Demon' to the Stranger
'Non-Humanism' and the Critique of Humanist Imagery
Transforming the Knowledge of Man, Rather Than Man Himself
Chapter II: Principles of Democracy as the Unified Theory of Philosophy and
the Stranger
On the Science of the Essence of Man as the Science of Strangers: The Theorem
of Democracy
The Ego-Xeno-Logical Constitution of Philosophy: On the Stranger as
Difference or Identity
Philosophical Xenophobology and its Practical and Theoretical Difficulties
The Principal Theorem of a Science of People as Strangers
Demonstration of the Theorem of Being-Stranger
On the Theory of Strangers as Mathesis Transcendentalis: The Real Axiomatic
Against Egology
The Stranger Within the Bounds of the Science of People
The Identity of the Stranger
The Two Concepts of the Stranger and the Dissolution of Their Amphibology
The Body (of) the Stranger as a Subjective Body in-the-Last-Instance and
Organon of the Ego
The Stranger as Void, Law, and 'Multitudo Transcendentalis': The Concept of
'Human Multitudes
The Stranger as Specifically Human Being
1. The Subject as Subject (of) the Stranger
2. The Identity of-the-Last-Instance of the Fundamental and Regional
Chapter III: Principles of Non-Psychoanalysis as the Unified Theory of
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
First Section: The Stakes of Non-Psychoanalysis
First Terms and Algorithm of Non-Analysis
The Non-Analytic Generalisation of Psychoanalysis: A Mathesis
Transcendentalis of the Unconscious
The Forgetting of the Real or the Joui
1. The Greco-Judaic Antinomy of Psychoanalysis
2. Psychoanalysis as Restrained Analysis
The Universal Unconscious and the Phenomenon of Unilateral Loss
The Unified Theory of the Unconscious as Non(-)Self-Signifying: From Analysis
to Dualysis
A Transcendental Pragmatics of Psychoanalysis as A Priori of Experience
The Philosophico-Analytic Appearance of Psychoanalysis: The Non-Analyst as
Analyst-of-the-
Last-Instance
Which One Resists? Indifference and Resistance
Second Section: Explanation of the Theorem of Non-Analysis
The Real or the Joui-sans-Jouissance
Jouissance
1. As Organon of the Real
2. As Jouissance (of) the Other or Intrinsically Unconscious
The Philosophico-Analytic Complex as a Symptom for Non-Analysis
First Aspect of Jouissance: Non-Platonic Desire and the Solution to the
Analytic Antinomy of
'jouissance' and 'Desire'
Second Aspect of Jouissance: the Universal or Transcendental Unconscious as
Jouissance (of the)
Void
The Essence (of) the Unconscious: The Dual or the Non(-)Self-Signifying
Signifier
The Dual Logic of the Unconscious
Jouissance and Subject
1. The 'Subject of the Unconscious' as Absolute Subjectivity
2. Jouissance as Subject (of) the Unconscious
3. The 'Subject of the Unconscious' as the Foreclosure of Jouissance
The Philosophical Triangulation of Psychoanalysis
From objet a to objet m: The Unilateral Concept of Loss
The Constitution of 'Phantasmatic Desire'
The Identity of the Non-Analyst: the Sembled and the Semblant, and the
Performational Identity of
Theory and Practice
The Non-Analyst's Phantasy: The Facticity of the objet m as a Support of
Jouissance
The Body (of) Jouissance: Analysis as the Incomplete Critique of Philosophy
Unitary Narcissism and the Narcissism of Jouissance: System and Theory
Non-Castration: Transcendental Incest and Detriangulation
The Transcendental Phallic Identity: Saving the Phenomenon of Desire and the
Pragmatics of
Sexual Difference
Transcendent Sublime and the Transcendental Sublime
The Amphibology of the Concept of Identification: Identity and
Identification
Index
Jeremy R. Smith is an independent researcher and translator. He is the co-founder of Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy. He has translated several articles by Francois Laruelle as well as Anne-Françoise Schmid. François Laruelle (1937-2024) was Emeritus Professor of philosophy at University of Paris X: Nanterre and instigator of the movement known as non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy. Laruelle was the director of LOrganisation Non-Philosophique Internationale. Author of over thirty texts, Laruelles work has been translated into English, Greek, Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese.
