LARUELLE DOES NOT EXIST

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Notes

“A Science of Christ?,” by François Laruelle, was published originally in The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition, and Universalism, eds. Peter M. Candler Jr and Conor Cunningham (Canterbury: SCM, 2009) 316–31. “Sexed Identity,” by François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid, was published originally as “L'Identité sexuée” in French and Macedonian in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture 5 (2003): 49–61. “Theorems on the Good News,” by François Laruelle, was published originally as “Théorèmes de la Bonne Nouvelle,” La Décision philosophique 1 (May 1987): 83–85. All are published here with the permission of the respective editors and presses for which we thank them.

The cover image was provided by Sean Capener, and special thanks to Marika Rose for her editorial assistance.

1 Audio of this event has been archived online and is available at <http://itself.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/laruelle-at-the-university-of-nottingham-reflections-and-audio/>.

2 Strangely enough Laruelle is far from alone in the French tradition in engaging with the problem of incarnation, a problem that goes under the general rubric of Christology. For a comparison of his engagement with Michel Henry and Alain Badiou see my “‘Who do you say I am?’: Secular Christologies in Contemporary French Philosophy,” Analecta Hermeneutica 4 (2012), available online at <http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/analecta/article/view/703/603>.

3 Harman.

4 Ibid.

5 Hegel 9.

6 Laruelle, “Letter” 396.

7 Laruelle, Principles 140.

8 Ibid. 141.

9 Laruelle, “Universe” 403.

10 Laruelle, Principles 141.

11 Laruelle, Struggle 3.

12 Ibid.

13 Laruelle, “Non-Philosophy” 244.

14 Laruelle, Struggle 160. ONPHI's web presence can be found at <http://www.onphi.net>.

15 Ibid. 85.

16 See Laruelle, “Non-Philosophy” 243.

17 For more on Grelet in English see my translator's introduction to Struggle and Utopia.

18 Laruelle, “Non-Philosophy” 243.