Ebook: Intellectuals and Power: the insurrection of the victim

In this important new book, the leading philosopher François Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in our societies today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. He argues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstract philosophical notions like justice, truth and violence, intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Drawing on his influential theory of 'non-philosophy', he shows how we can submit the theorizing of intellectuals to the scrutiny of the everyday suffering of the victims of crime. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion with Philippe Petit, Laruell.;Title page; Copyright; Contents; Translator's preface; Interviewer's preface; Prologue; The Name-of-Man or the Identity of the Real; Portrait of the Dominant Intellectual; The Victim and the Understanding of Crime; The Practice of the Determined Intellectual; Criminal History and the Demand for Justice; Index.