Style without substance, form qua function: the non-philosophical unilateralization of philosophical style
Style without substance, form qua function: the non-philosophical unilateralization of philosophical style
In this article, I argue that the problematic of style, and the ways in which it is utilized within philosophical disputation, provides a useful starting-point for understanding François Laruelle's stated aim of unilateralizing philosophical materials whilst simultaneously suspending the presupposed sufficiency of philosophical language. Focusing specifically upon Laruelle's earlier work (the so-called 'Philosophy I' and 'Philosophy II' stages, according to his own periodization), I suggest that a non-philosophical unilateralization of style would necessitate thinking the various stylistic techniques of philosophy in their irreducible individuality, detaching the question of style (and of language and rhetoric more generally) from any question of its adequation to the real, and thus refusing any hierarchical distinctions between various styles.
continental philosophy, non-philosophy, style, communication, François Laruelle, Friedrich Nietzsche
113-145
Sutherland, Thomas
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12 April 2018
Sutherland, Thomas
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Sutherland, Thomas
(2018)
Style without substance, form qua function: the non-philosophical unilateralization of philosophical style.
Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 29, .
Abstract
In this article, I argue that the problematic of style, and the ways in which it is utilized within philosophical disputation, provides a useful starting-point for understanding François Laruelle's stated aim of unilateralizing philosophical materials whilst simultaneously suspending the presupposed sufficiency of philosophical language. Focusing specifically upon Laruelle's earlier work (the so-called 'Philosophy I' and 'Philosophy II' stages, according to his own periodization), I suggest that a non-philosophical unilateralization of style would necessitate thinking the various stylistic techniques of philosophy in their irreducible individuality, detaching the question of style (and of language and rhetoric more generally) from any question of its adequation to the real, and thus refusing any hierarchical distinctions between various styles.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 June 2017
Published date: 12 April 2018
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continental philosophy, non-philosophy, style, communication, François Laruelle, Friedrich Nietzsche
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