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francois-laruelle-controversy-over-the-possibility-of-a-science-of-philosophy
"francois-laruelle-controversy-over-the-possibility-of-a-science-of-philosophy" 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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Core idea
These pages matter because they show one major route by which the archive is forced into clearer argumentative language. Brassier's realism turns the afterlife of Land and the CCRU into a problem of truth, abstraction, and rational critique rather than scene myth or stylistic intensity alone.
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.
That matters because this section is about philosophical afterlives, not only loyalty or rejection. Brassier keeps the archive alive precisely by refusing to leave its concepts in their original rhetorical atmosphere.
How to read this text
Read for how realism, truth, or abstraction are being defined before following the page into its local debate or target.
Track where the page tests Land or post-CCRU concepts against a stricter account of philosophy. That pressure is usually the real hinge of the text.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy. La Decision Philosophique No.
Definition · paragraph 9
contents itself with treating philosophy simply as the object of a new science and with new practices elaborated on that basis..." François Laruelle: What I describe with the term ‘essence of science’, are the structures of any science whatsoever.
Definition · paragraph 7
However, maybe it should be made more explicit, there is a limitation of philosophy by science, that is all. But above all I do not overturn philosophy; were I claiming to overthrow it, then that would be pointless gesture, a zero-sum game. The entire enterprise would then be contradictory.
Definition · paragraph 12
But in philosophy one distinguish the empirical real and the possible (the a priori), and then the real of possibility; one envisages a synthesis or a mixture of possibility and the real. All I am saying, is that science is a type of thinking that is realist in the last instance and that is exclusively realist.
Afterlife · paragraph 1
Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy. La Decision Philosophique No. 5, April 1988, pp62-76 Translated by Robin Mackay (http://blog.urbanomic.com/dread/).
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.