"François Laruelles elaboration of the final phase of his thought, in which he synthesizes the disparate aspects of his work. The "non-philosophy" that Laruelle has developed over the past three decades is given its final and systematic form here: "non-standard philosophy" focuses on practices rather than theories of thought that rely on a double engagement with philosophy and science. The book seeks to unite the two, but no longer from the perspective of philosophy alone. It shows how science itself can provide the model and methodology of this approach. It forges a vast number of tools and concepts that allow Laruelle and his readers to engage in and resolve the most fundamental questions, e.g.: what is that we do when we think? What is the relation between knowledge and the real? What new method of thought is necessary in the face of philosophys persistent failure to achieve definitive answers? What does it mean to create an ontology, an aesthetics, and an ethics today? He sees it as changing philosophy in the same manner as quantum physics changed physics. Laruelle borrows the notions of the quantum and the generic, among countless others, from science in order to understand them no longer in relation to the physical real but to knowledge itself.

The book operates as a guidebook or manual of practice. While Laruelles earlier books were largely concerned with establishing his theory of non-philosophy--a radical immanence that denies the transcendental maneuvers of Western philosophy--Non-Standard Philosophy lays open a new terrain that puts the theory to work in an original and unified way; it is a philosophy for the people"-- Provided by publisher.