Theory of Strangers

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 L’Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale. Author of over thirty texts, Laruelle’s work has been translated into English, Greek, Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese.

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.

• Welcoming the Stranger that One is: Translator's IntroductionProgramme: Which One is the Stranger? A New IdeaProblematic: On Man as a Scientific ContinentHomo Sive ScientiaUnitary Theory and Unified Theory of Philosophy and the Human SciencesOn Philosophy as the Superior Form of Bio-TechnologyOn the Indivisibility of Man as a Theoretical ObjectOn Man as a Cause For ScienceFrom Man as the Cause for Science to the Science of PeopleScience and Meta-ScienceChapter I: Principles of a Science of People as the Unified Theory of Philosophy and the Human SciencesThe Principle of a Future Science That Would Present Itself as HumanThe Duality of the Givennesses of Man: the Human-Given-without-Givenness and Meta-Human GivennessThe Non-Donative Ego or Vision-in-ManThe Givenness of Meta-Human Knowledges and its Relative AutonomyThe Object of Science: Universal Humanity or StrangersThe Ego, The Stranger, ScienceOn the Science of People as the 'Unified Theory' of ManThe cogito sum of Man as StrangerThe Stranger as the Subject of the Science of People and DemocracyAgainst Dogmatism: A 'Non-Copernican' and 'Non-Rousseauist' MutationOn the Good Use of the Human Sciences: Meta-Language, Material, and ModelFrom 'The Anthropological Demon' to the Stranger'Non-Humanism' and the Critique of Humanist ImageryTransforming the Knowledge of Man, Rather Than Man HimselfChapter II: Principles of Democracy as the Unified Theory of Philosophy and the StrangerOn the Science of the Essence of Man as the Science of Strangers: The Theorem of DemocracyThe Ego-Xeno-Logical Constitution of Philosophy: On the Stranger as Difference or IdentityPhilosophical Xenophobology and its Practical and Theoretical DifficultiesThe Principal Theorem of a Science of People as StrangersDemonstration of the Theorem of Being-StrangerOn the Theory of Strangers as Mathesis Transcendentalis: The Real Axiomatic Against EgologyThe Stranger Within the Bounds of the Science of PeopleThe Identity of the StrangerThe Two Concepts of the Stranger and the Dissolution of Their AmphibologyThe Body (of) the Stranger as a Subjective Body in-the-Last-Instance and Organon of the EgoThe Stranger as Void, Law, and 'Multitudo Transcendentalis': The Concept of 'Human MultitudesThe Stranger as Specifically Human Being1. The Subject as Subject (of) the Stranger2. The Identity of-the-Last-Instance of the Fundamental and RegionalChapter III: Principles of Non-Psychoanalysis as the Unified Theory of Philosophy and PsychoanalysisFirst Section: The Stakes of Non-PsychoanalysisFirst Terms and Algorithm of Non-AnalysisThe Non-Analytic Generalisation of Psychoanalysis: A Mathesis Transcendentalis of the UnconsciousThe Forgetting of the Real or the Joui1. The Greco-Judaic Antinomy of Psychoanalysis2. Psychoanalysis as Restrained AnalysisThe Universal Unconscious and the Phenomenon of Unilateral LossThe Unified Theory of the Unconscious as Non(-)Self-Signifying: From Analysis to DualysisA Transcendental Pragmatics of Psychoanalysis as A Priori of ExperienceThe Philosophico-Analytic Appearance of Psychoanalysis: The Non-Analyst as Analyst-of-the-Last-InstanceWhich One Resists? Indifference and ResistanceSecond Section: Explanation of the Theorem of Non-AnalysisThe Real or the Joui-sans-JouissanceJouissance1. As Organon of the Real2. As Jouissance (of) the Other or Intrinsically UnconsciousThe Philosophico-Analytic Complex as a Symptom for Non-AnalysisFirst 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)VoidThe Essence (of) the Unconscious: The Dual or the Non(-)Self-Signifying SignifierThe Dual Logic of the UnconsciousJouissance and Subject1. The 'Subject of the Unconscious' as Absolute Subjectivity2. Jouissance as Subject (of) the Unconscious3. The 'Subject of the Unconscious' as the Foreclosure of JouissanceThe Philosophical Triangulation of PsychoanalysisFrom objet a to objet m: The Unilateral Concept of LossThe Constitution of 'Phantasmatic Desire'The Identity of the Non-Analyst: the Sembled and the Semblant, and the Performational Identity ofTheory and PracticeThe Non-Analyst's Phantasy: The Facticity of the objet m as a Support of JouissanceThe Body (of) Jouissance: Analysis as the Incomplete Critique of PhilosophyUnitary Narcissism and the Narcissism of Jouissance: System and TheoryNon-Castration: Transcendental Incest and DetriangulationThe Transcendental Phallic Identity: Saving the Phenomenon of Desire and the Pragmatics ofSexual DifferenceTranscendent Sublime and the Transcendental SublimeThe Amphibology of the Concept of Identification: Identity and IdentificationIndex