F. Laruelle’s Identity Theory

Abstract

The article is aimed at the analysis of F. Laruelle's theory of identity interpreted by this author himself as a response to the post-metaphysical age challenge. In this theory perspective, the scientific thinking is considered as a universal foundation * The article was implemented within the framework of the project of the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research «Linguistic turn and historical knowledge as а problem of Western philosophy of the second half of the XX - early XXI century», grant number of the cultural forms multiplicity that appears independently from philosophy. The immanent contradictions of the new allegedly non-philosophical theory of science offered by Laruelle on the platform of transcendental reflexion and general fractal theory synthesis are revealed. Laruelle's artificial philosophy (non-philosophy) based on the identities theory may be considered, despite his intention to prove its science of philosophy status, as a tool of meta-philosophical reflexion representing an interesting approach to building classical and post-classical Western philosophy patterns of formation that deserves a careful examination.