The Sidebar Update

I recently looked at my sidebar and realized I haven't updated my debt and savings totals since 7/1/08! And none of you said anything! Hmph! Kidding. I was excited to change that student loan to a $0 owed. And I was able to add a big jump to the HELOC paid number too. All should be updated now. I'm low on blog post ideas at the moment. Anything you want to know about me? My debt elimination marathon? My views on the economy right now?

Reversing the Critical Turn

Continuing with the series I began here: , I want to look now at how Francois Laruelle attempts to move beyond the Kantian critical turn. I'm going to avoid going too deeply into his project, and focus mostly on how he justifies his work.

The Axiomatic Approach:
Laruelle’s general stance towards the critical injunction can be summed up in his claim that, “It is necessary to start from the real, otherwise you will never get to it.” (Derrida & Laruelle, “Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy”) This directly opposes the numerous attempts to work within language, discourse, philosophy, culture, consciousness, subjectivity, etc. and discern a way to escape the correlationist circle.