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Brassier - Behold the Non-Rabbit - Kant, Quine, Laruelle
"Behold the Non-Rabbit - Kant, Quine, Laruelle" belongs to Brassier's realism line, where abstraction, truth, and rational critique are used to pressure-test the archive's more charismatic inheritances.
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The mechanism is pressure through philosophy. Sellars, Laruelle, Badiou, nihilism, and realism all become ways of testing whether concepts survive once they are detached from their original scene charisma and forced into stricter conceptual articulation.
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Definition · paragraph 1
Ph 12 (2001), 50-82. Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle RAY BRASSIER Introduction This paper is about inuiviuuation, theory, and experience, and will examine the way in which these concepts are intertwined in the work of three very different philosophers.
Definition · paragraph 1
Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle RAY BRASSIER Introduction This paper is about inuiviuuation, theory, and experience, and will examine the way in which these concepts are intertwined in the work of three very different philosophers. More precisely, 1 will be fore grounding the theme of i ndividuation but only in order to use it as a lens through which to focus on the way in which the relation between theory and experience is understood by these three thinkers.
Definition · paragraph 25
In this respect, Laruelle can be seen to be radicalising the combined Kantian and Quinean critiques of the idea that our experience is of things in-themselves, defined indepe ndently of theoretical meuiatioll. There are no pre-theoretical experiences of rabbits-in-themselves, only an experience constructed through theories of rabbithood.
Definition · paragraph 10
Ray Brassier 59 Quine Interestingly enough, this relation of double articulation and rec iprocal presupposition between philosophy and science is also one of the most striking features of Quine's work, albeit reconfigured in a viglOrously naturalistic, anti-transcendental fashion. QUine 's demolition of the analytic-synthetic distinctionO inval idates the Kantian conception of the transcendental ::md liquidates the very notion of the synthetic a priori.
Definition · paragraph 18
Laruelle Larue lle is interested in clarifying the notion of a transcendental presupposition for philosophical thought. In other words, he 's interested ill clarifying the notion of transcendental immanence that, we suggested, was already operative in the thought of Kant anc! Quine.
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Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.