Ebook: The Real Is Radical: Marx after Laruelle

In The Non-Marxist Imperative, Jonathan Fardy historically and theoretically situates Francois Laruelle’s non-Marxism; itself a radical recasting of Marxist theory. For Fardy, non-Marxism does not constitute a rejection of Marxism itself. Rather, it is a form of thinking that remains radically faithful to Marx’s effort to surmount the binary of theory and practice and instead, institutes a ‘philosophy of praxis’.
By providing a historical overview of Marxism as a philosophical concept, Fardy orients Laruelle’s work towards that of Marx himself, along with that of the German Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch. In doing so, he has written a book that will be of interest to scholars of all three thinkers and students on both political and Marxist philosophy courses. By combining and contrasting the three theorists, Fardy introduces a constellation of thought that aims to move past the idealist limits of Marxist philosophy in the name of what is radical and real.